João Matos Discusses the Challenges of Wildfire Detection

in Europe it's easier because the cities are more near one of the others so it's needed to have communications from one side or the other we don't have 100 kilometers in one way without having a city so with 100 kilometers I can put four systems and then I have a municipality and I have internet and I have a way to have to install communications. In the United States it's not well the same when we may have 1000 kilometers of forest and without any system, without any city or without any municipality. So I think the United States the bigger problem is the distances. I've been there when we won the prize of IBM. I've been there one year. I talked with a lot of people. I know that the United States are investing a lot in satellites, but it's not, in my side of view, it's not also the best way, because the satellites, they are very cost, they are very expensive, and the efficiency is not very good, because if you have clouds, you don't detect anything, you don't see. But also, the time for detection and the sound. of the detection, it's very big. While our system can detect a smoke with less than five meters sight, with a satellite maybe you can have a detection with 500 meters.