The EU is seeking to limit growing threats from blazes through the use of satellites, artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Picture the following scene on the French island of Corsica: A local fire service uses a special surveillance camera to detect smoke in the area, quickly declare the outbreak of a blaze and mobilize a targeted response.
"After the next two demonstrations, we would like to push the management system forward in Europe and also beyond," said Claudio Rossi, who coordinates the project and is a senior researcher at an Italian research and innovation center called the Links Foundation in the city of Turin. The ultimate goal is to build on the demonstrations in France, Greece, Italy and Spain and develop a comprehensive wildfire-control system for use around Europe. By combining
"These last years we have noticed that notably because of global warming, the summer season has a tendency to expand," said Pelissier, the firefighter."So we are increasingly threatened byThe EU, which recently doubled its firefighting fleet of aircraft, has deployed more than 10 planes, 500 firefighters and 100 vehicles to help control and quell wildfires in Greece alone during the summer of 2023.
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