Watch CalFire introduce AI-powered wildfire detection in 2023

CGTN Europe

In the aftermath of California’s devastating 2022 fires, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a series of new initiatives aimed at preventing future catastrophes. “We’re enlisting cutting-edge technology in our efforts to fight wildfires, exploring how innovations like artificial intelligence can help us identify threats quicker and deploy resources smarter,” Newsom explained.  Since the summer of 2023, Cal Fire has relied on ALERTCalifornia, a statewide network of over 1,100 publicly available video cameras, to power its AI system, created and maintained by the University of California, San Diego.  Despite its promise, there was little AI could do to expedite the response to the recent devastating fire.  #california #LAfire #wildfires

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00:00This is the IOC, or the Intel Operations Center.

00:03Behind me is the CentiMassive wall.

00:05It was built in partnership with UCSD and the Alert California system

00:09to monitor real-time the Alert California cameras.

00:14There's over a thousand, a little over a thousand cameras throughout California,

00:17and to be able to look at these cameras every second of the day,

00:21this is what AI does for us.

00:23We've had calls that have been detected at 2 in the morning in desolate areas,

00:28otherwise would have went undetected until a greater smoke column was reported.

00:34And when we go in to look at that anomaly,

00:36it gives us a 0.55% confidence that this is actually a smoke.

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