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How AI and satellite imaging are helping detect wildfires in Colorado before they grow

New artificial intelligence model from NOAA scans for new fires smaller than a football field

Kyle Thiem, test and evaluation meteorologist with NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory, highlights a high wind event in an upcoming simulation at the start of the final day of evaluating two new wildland fire decision support tools in NOAA’s new Fire Weather Testbed. Alex Zwink, left, an IT specialist with the NWS Warning Decision Training Division, and Michael Pavolonis, center, the Wildland Fire Program manager, look on. (Provided by NOAA/Lauren Lipuma/CIRES)
Kyle Thiem, test and evaluation meteorologist with NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory, highlights a high wind event in an upcoming simulation at the start of the final day of evaluating two new wildland fire decision support tools in NOAA’s new Fire Weather Testbed. Alex Zwink, left, an IT specialist with the NWS Warning Decision Training Division, and Michael Pavolonis, center, the Wildland Fire Program manager, look on. (Provided by NOAA/Lauren Lipuma/CIRES)
DENVER, CO - NOVEMBER 8: Elise Schmelzer - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | eschmelzer@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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A new artificial intelligence program being used in Colorado will help identify wildfires as small as an acre by scanning images taken by weather satellites orbiting about 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface.
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