XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
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XPRIZE Wildfire竞赛聚焦太空野火探测与消防无人机技术，共设两个奖项类别。太空探测赛道要求团队在10分钟内准确识别澳大利亚大片区域内的所有火灾；自主响应赛道则要求在阿拉斯加乡村地区于起火后10分钟内自主探测并扑灭高风险火灾，同时忽略诱饵火情。尽管没有团队获得两项大奖，但此类技术在全球野火灾害成本不断上升的背景下可能具有实用价值。
Wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones featured among the finalists honored in the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition. Although no team walked away with either of the two grand prizes, such technologies could prove helpful as the world grapples with the growing costs of worsening wildfire disasters.
The competition’s First Prize track for space-based wildfire detection challenged teams to accurately detect all fires across a large swath of Australia within 10 minutes. A second Autonomous Response Prize track challenged teams to autonomously detect and put out a high-risk fire located somewhere within rural Alaska while ignoring decoy fires—all within 10 minutes of the fire igniting.
“We want to be able to prepare and provide tools for firefighters to really allow them to do the best job,” said Andrea Santy, program director of XPRIZE Wildfire, in an interview with Ars. “They're great at what they do, but it's unfair to continue to put them in harm's way when there's technology coming online that can help keep them safe, keep communities safe, and protect ecosystems.”
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