Our project was inspired by the Yarnell Hill Wildfire. The project is centered around a drone that can fly above the fire as an artificial firefighter lookout. Though this would serve as a lookout, it would not replace human lookouts, who would be constantly monitoring footage that is being streamed live from the drone. As this is a proof of concept, we have not implemented all of our planned features, such as infrared cameras that can see through smoke, will not be blinded by the fire, and can "see" day and night. It can also provide up to the minute fire locations, wind speed and direction, and heat levels.
We also plan to have this work as a communication relay point, in the event that the firefighters are stuck in a valley and their communications are blocked by the rock walls surrounding them. Additionally, the drone would not only stream to the lookout's tablet/phone, but it would also stream to the firefighter headquarters for monitoring, allowing the location and status of the firefighters to always be known.
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