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by buttscicles 1572 days ago
Yeah, I'd like to know how it's spotting these fires
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Satellite fire detection can find ignitions pretty darn quick -- much quicker than I would expect.

Also, some ignitions come from known sources (e.g. powerline downing), and monitoring and localization already exists in some cases (PG&E).

Satellites do that.