As climate change shows its “teeth” with huge fires affecting more and more states, a new technology is being developed and specifically giant balloons to effectively prevent fires. The initiative belongs to Urban Sky, a start-up that designs high-altitude hot air balloons, and experimental tests were recently conducted in fire-fighting Colorado. Jared Leidich, co-founder and chief technology officer of Urban Sky, explained to CNN how the giant balloon will work and why he thinks it’s superior to satellites and drones. Based on what he said, the balloons will be equipped with various infrared sensors to map vegetation density and soil moisture content. The data will then be processed in real-time and combined with information about lightning strikes and other ignition sources to produce a site-specific risk score, effectively pinpointing the areas most likely to […]
Source: News Beast
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