Inspiration
Forests are an important part of natural resources. However, current environmental conditions, unfortunately, have made the occurrence of wildfires more frequent, causing sizable areas of forest loss each year, e.g. California fires occurred in November 2018 and this year. Early prevention of forest fires is one of the important means to protect natural resources and people.
What it does
Using a combination of real-time image data along with batch weather, humidity, and past location incident data, we are deducing the "confidence" with which a wildfire can positively happen and our system will alert the residents and the city officials once a particular threshold is crossed.
How we built it
Google Cloud Platform, Firebase (hosting & messaging) , Python (SciKit, Pandas libraries), YOLO v3, React, and Blender for the front-end. Balsamiq for Mobile front-end wireframing.
Challenges we ran into
The whole tech stack except Python was new to us so had to adapt quickly.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Using technology for a social cause.
What we learned
YOLO v3, CNN, Wildfire statistics, GCP
What's next for LooneyTunes Xtinguish
Commercialize it or make it a part of the Google Earth package.
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