Wildfires are fast and furious. With the unexpected hot weather, increasing wildfire risk in WUI, rising home construction costs, and the recent exodus of insurres from the California home insurance market, homeowners are facing significant financial risks if their properties are damaged by wildfires. Homeowners need solutions to mitigate wildfire…

Turn on Your LookOut Wildfire Detection Service Today It is now July, and the northern hemisphere is entering summertime, with fire seasons starting in many countries. We don't know when the recent drought and heatwaves will end. Time is running out to do more forest thinning and fuel reduction. Besides…

Our biodiversity is magnificent and full of wonders. Fig1: Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong With increasing climate risks, surging biodiversity crisis, growing stakeholder expectations, and greater regulatory demands, businesses and individuals must act now to help society to transition to a more sustainable world and protect our nature.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…