We decided to build a crowdsourcing tool for citizens to contribute to early detection of fire. To achieve this goal, we will need to create a platform for verification and notification about wildfire accessible through a mobile app and USSD (for countries without internet access).

This platform will be designed to help people quickly draw attention to wildfire and will be built with the following functionalities:

• Detection

Using an android mobile app people can take pictures of fire

Using USSD, people are also able to send information about a fire directly to our API

• Verification

Using Machine Learning, we can confirm that any picture taken is really a fire. We will crosscheck this information with NASA's satellite data, and if this is confirmed we directly contact the appropriate authorities.

• Notification

Using our API we will be able to send SMS or Email to the different appropriate authorities.

For the next step we are working on the following functionalities:

• Visualization

We are building a web-based dashboard that displays relevant data about fires so that the authorities could learn from it. This learning will bring efficiency in mitigating wildfire.

• Tracking

This functionality is supposed to use Realtime data from satellite to track the evolution of the fire and give to relevant authorities important information.