How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires  —  We can already detect fires from space, soon after they start.  Here's why we don't yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday.

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