Using swarms of drones to map and help fight wildfires

To monitor and stop the spread of wildfires, University of Michigan engineers developed UAVs that could find, map and report fires. One day UAVs like this could work with disaster response units, firefighters and other emergency teams to provide real-time accurate information to reduce damage and save lives.

For their research, the University of Michigan graduate students won first place at a competition for using a swarm of UAVs to successfully map and report simulated wildfires.

This research was advised by Ella Atkins, professor of aerospace engineering and director of the Autonomous Aerospace Systems (A2Sys) Lab:

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[CoronaryArteryDisease.]

This stuff is so fascinating. I recently saw China using drones to fight fires in really tall buildings. Your work is changing the world.

[wordgirl]

Regardless, of whether it's out of carelessness or dryer conditions caused by increased winds and rain deprivation or combination thereof; the fact that it's happening at all is reason enough to implement any strategy that might help toward bringing it under control. Yeah?

[josephfarrugia]

Why has not been implemented yet by all governments with large forests?