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Fighting fires from space in record time: how AI could prevent devastating wildfires - EurekAlert


Australian scientists are getting closer to detecting bushfires in record time, thanks to cube satellites with onboard AI now able to detect fires from space 500 times faster than traditional on-ground processing of imagery.

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