“If the ignition is detected immediately, it can be extinguished with little expended resources or loss of life.” – WUI Operational Requirements and Capability Analysis – Report of Findings, US government1. Fast & Accurate Dual-Sensor Our LWIR detection is fast (as small as 2 m2 flame at 5 km). Accurately detect…

Figure 1: An InsightFD early forest and land fire detection robot in Kalimantan Has Environmental supports MoEF, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Indonesia: Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan), to deploy InsightFD early fire detection systems across the country to reduce forest and land fire in Indonesia. According to data from…

Robotics Galu brought to Mexico devices that detect conflagrations as small as 2m2 in size. Figure 1: Dr Fernando Aranda, Director of Robotics Galu, explained how the InsightFD wildfire detection robots work. In the face of the rising wave of forest fires, Robotics Galu installed a device, which can detect…

Carbon and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Active Fires Detected by MODIS during January-April from 2003-2019 of Upper ASEAN and ThailandClimate change, population growth, and economic development are leading to increase in both man-made and natural disasters.  Wildland fires and open burning are factors to create carbon-related greenhouse gases concentration in…

Wildfires (or bushfires in Australia or forest fire in Southeast Asia) are fires that are burning vegetation freely in the wild in an uncontrollable manner raging across the landscape.  To have a fire, the triangle of fire needs to be perfectly met which are heat, fuel and oxygen, without one,…

Figure 1 Fire in Peat Swamp Forest Thailand is centrally located in the Indochina Peninsular between 5° 40’ and 20° 30’ North latitudes and 90° 70’ and 105° 45’ East longitudes covering an area of 513,115 sq km (Figure 2) which is characterized by a monsoon climate.  It has two…

Indonesia, a beautiful country that is known as the Emerald of the Equator due to its vast area of wild forest spread across the country. As of 2010, 73% of Indonesia, about 137 million hectares, was natural forest cover1. Several endemic species of animal and plantation also can only be…