RoboticsCats x WWF Hong Kong: AI bird detection

RoboticsCats x WWF Hong Kong: AI bird detection

Did you know? Mai Po and the Inner Deep Bay provide food and habitat for over 60,000 birds from more than 400 species each year. Fig 1: Mai Po Nature Reserve. Source: WWF-Hong Kong Located on the northwestern corner of Hong Kong, the Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay wetlands…
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RoboticsCats joins CITRIS to Innovate Workforce of future

RoboticsCats joins CITRIS to Innovate Workforce of future

It is an honor for us to participate in the CITRIS Workforce Innovation Program. Three brilliant University of California (UC) undergrads will be joining RoboticsCats as interns this summer. They will apply their knowledge in environmental sciences and engineering in a climatetech startup environment. They will add diversity, new perspectives,…
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NDK detects early-stage forest fires in Korea

NDK detects early-stage forest fires in Korea

좋은 아침. The land area of South Korea (Republic of Korean) is about 10.0Mha. According to GlobalForestWatch and FOA, there was 6.18Mha of forest in South Korea in 2015, and 3.46Mha was primary forest. There are eight provinces in South Korea, and three of them - Gangwon (1.33Mha), North Gyeongsang…
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How to Test Wildfire Detection System

How to Test Wildfire Detection System

We worked with our partners to conduct fire tests in different markets over the years - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal, Latvia, Greece, etc. We did fire tests for several purposes: product evaluations, UAT (user acceptance test), annual product maintenance, and AI model training. We…
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Precise Operation LookOut for Wildfires in Mozambique

Precise Operation LookOut for Wildfires in Mozambique

Ola. It is our pleasure to partner with Precise Operation to provide LookOut wildfire detection service in Mozambique. There are serious forest fire problems in Africa. 489 million hectares of land burned in Africa in 2016, about 16% of the continent’s total area. 80% of the wildfires are small fires…
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CIEMSA protects Cabo Polonio National Park from Wildland Fire

CIEMSA protects Cabo Polonio National Park from Wildland Fire

In January 2022, our partner CIEMSA deployed new LookOut wildfire detection systems in Uruguay. We teamed up with CIEMSA to deploy the first LookOut wildfire detection system in Uruguay last June. LookOut worked off-the-shelf in Uruguay. LookOut detected many prescribed fires in Piriapolis. The detection performance was outstanding. CIEMSA and…
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RoboticsCats join SilvaTech to Accelerate Foresttech

RoboticsCats join SilvaTech to Accelerate Foresttech

Sveiki! 2022 is an exciting year! We start the journey from Latvia with a new role. We are one of the ten SilvaTech Growth Accelerator cohorts! SilvaTech is a free international startup acceleration program powered by JSC Latvia's State Forests (LVM) and Startup Wise Guys (SWG) accelerator to promote innovation…
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Leitek Protects Portugal Forests from Wildfires using AI

Leitek Protects Portugal Forests from Wildfires using AI

Our partner Leitek Innovative Solutions recently supplied and deployed in the Portuguese Island of Madeira our AI early wildfire detection systems in more areas to protect the environment and communities in Madeira. The contract was signed with the Regional Government of Madeira. Figure 1: One of the new camera systems…
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LookOut protects Vietnam power lines from wildfire

LookOut protects Vietnam power lines from wildfire

Vietnam is a major industrial nation in Southeast Asia, with a land area of  331,699 km2 and a population of 96 millions. The forest cover is about 14.5millions hectares, more than half of the country According to the Forestry Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the peak wildfire season…
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Set Up LookOut Wildfire Detection Service

Set Up LookOut Wildfire Detection Service

LookOut is our visual analytics (VA) software-as-a-service.  LookOut provides AI wildfire detection service and construction fire detection service. These services are quick-to-deploy and easy to use. It takes you about a few minutes to set up LookOut. There are three components in LookOut: Input: visual camera (e.g. AXIS P1378-LE) and…
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