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Spain and Portugal in the frontline of hi-tech EU efforts to combat wildfires
euronews (in English)
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08/07/2024
Climate change has heightened the risk of forest fires and wildfires in Europe. EU agencies are cooperating across borders and using artificial intelligence to predict and prevent disasters.
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This project has an important part in technological advances applied to the fight against forest fires.
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Artificial intelligence can give us support in both prevention and extinction.
00:19
In the prevention of what way? Because it helps us anticipate to know the danger and risk situation of each part of the territory.
00:30
Artificial intelligence can be an opportunity to know better the behavior of these fires,
00:36
which we call the sixth generation, because they have behaviors that do not respond to the expected statistical parameters.
00:48
From the point of view of extinction, once that fire has already occurred,
00:52
we rely on these tools through simulators,
00:56
which tell us with what probability the fire will reach a certain area,
01:00
it will have a certain behavior, it will affect a town and we have to evacuate it.
01:04
That is, they give us support for decision-making during extinction.
01:11
We are trying to put in artificial intelligence, little by little,
01:15
all the volume of data of all the media that come to the fire and what are their performance and so on,
01:22
to simulate what can be an operational response.
01:25
That is, it can give us advice, depending on the type of fire,
01:30
what tactics, strategies or means would be more advisable.
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