Yes all the fire agencies have drones. Though when you look at getting them to a location, launching, managing the feeds and fusing the imagery, it doesn't come close to the opportunity of what can be done with a wide area network of citizen phones.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 7:08 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > If DJs can afford them surely the forestry service can (to parallelize the > data collection). > > > > https://dronedj.com/guides/drone-light-show/ > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin > *Sent:* Monday, November 9, 2020 5:17 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [Colloquia] Colloquium - Wed Nov 11 - Kasra > Manavi > > > > Phones before Drones. > > > > Imagery from drones can be incorporated, as can be aircraft imagery and > satellite. However, they tend to come later in the incident or are at lower > frequency and spatial scale. > > > > Our focus is coordinating imagery from citizen mobile phone cameras which > we believe has the greatest value in the first moment of an incident > (wildfire, explosion, active shooter, mudslide, tornado, etc). And then > getting the collective intelligence to those same citizens on their phones > via AR and georectified maps to enable decentralized collective action. > Arguably intelligence and action two sides of the same coin. "intelligence > is as intelligence does". > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 5:37 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Why aren’t fleets of automated drones used? > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Angel Edward > *Sent:* Monday, November 9, 2020 4:28 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] Fwd: [Colloquia] Colloquium - Wed Nov 11 - Kasra Manavi > > > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > *From: *Shuang Luan <[email protected]> > > *Subject: [Colloquia] Colloquium - Wed Nov 11 - Kasra Manavi* > > *Date: *November 9, 2020 at 10:10:31 AM MST > > *To: *[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > CS Faculty mail list <[email protected]> > > > > UNM Computer Science Department Colloquium Series > > Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020 > 2:00-2:50 PM > > Join via Zoom: > https://unm.zoom.us/j/98715707842 > Meeting ID: 987 1570 7842 > Passcode: 9620277 > > > > *Speaker:* > > Kasra “Kaz” Manavi, PhD > > Director of Research and Communications, Simtable > > *Title:* > Realtime.Earth: Collective Intelligence from Distributed Imagery for > Wildland Fire > > *Abstract:* > We are currently fighting “blind” on wildland fire incidents. Fire > location and behavior intelligence is crucial during the initial phase of > an incident, but reports of wildfire can be delayed for hours. To make > matters worse, changes in fuel loads and forest composition along with > increasing fire season lengths are resulting in larger and more intense > fires. With recent events like the Tubbs, Atlas and Camp Fires, more and > more catastrophic wildland fire events are causing significant structure > damage and considerable numbers of lives are being lost. Real-time data > streams relevant to wildland fire are diversifying e.g. increased activity > on social media and publicly accessible imagery. With the increase in these > streams, more and more sources of relevant imagery are becoming available > during an incident. We suggest the fusion of these data outlets coupled > with streaming camera feeds directly from mobile phone browsers can provide > real-time situation awareness during the critical first hours of an > incident. In this talk we discuss observations obtained using > Realtime.Earth, a web-based platform for real-time collective intelligence > enabled by imagery capture and collection, data distribution and model > visualization, all in the browser. We discuss how imagery captured on > mobile devices from citizens, crews and social media can be fused together > into live 3D models for real-time fire behavior monitoring. > > *Bio:* > Kasra “Kaz” Manavi is the Director of Research and Communications at > Simtable. He received a M.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University > with an emphasis on robotic motion planning and received a PhD in Computer > Science from the University of New Mexico with a focus on computational > structural biology. After graduation, he started working at Simtable LLC in > Santa Fe, NM, where he has been working on developing a web-based platform > to enable real-time collective intelligence by providing users the ability > to seamlessly incorporate agent-based modeling, ambient computing, > photogrammetry, geospatial information systems and distributed computation > into solutions that helps users better understand complex environmental and > social phenomena in their community, primarily in the wildland fire space. > > > > > > Shuang (Sean) Luan, PhD > > Professor and Associate Chair, Computer Science > > Director, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program > > University of New Mexico > > > > _______________________________________________ > Colloquia mailing list > [email protected] > https://snape.cs.unm.edu/listinfo/colloquia > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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