A location inside the pixel
Each detection carries a position and an error radius in metres. Correcting for terrain and the instrument's point spread improves resolution inside the 2 km pixel.
Fire locations a crew can drive to.
Himawari scans Australia every 10 minutes. The national hotspot product places each fire within ±2 km and publishes it about 20 minutes later. Fire is the data pipeline built to locate each detection inside the pixel, on sovereign compute.
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- hotspot accuracy today
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Janis Lesinskis, Chief Data and Digital Officer, spent four years on fire detection, at Fireball and then on UC Berkeley's FUEGO project, most recently preparing a satellite instrument for launch at the Space Sciences Laboratory. Bradley Busch, founder, leads safety, data governance, and funding.
Deliverables
Labelled fire data
Every detection records its location, time, and heat properties, derived from physics and computational analytics. The record is fit for training AI models and for simulation.
Results against a service clock
Validation reports geolocation error, detection rate, false alarm rate, and F1 score. Processing time runs from data arrival to data and alert sent.
Stage 1a validation runs on the Himawari archive for the 2019-20 Australian fire season, against VIIRS and Landsat fire records.
Data sovereignty
Stage 1a sets the jurisdiction requirements for each link in the chain before any data moves, and storage and compute stay sovereign throughout.
- Acquisition: which satellites and ground stations the data comes from.
- Transmission: how the data moves, and across which borders.
- Storage: where the data rests.
- Processing: where the model runs, and whether one instance serves every jurisdiction.
- Insights: who receives the data and alerts, and through which channel.
Roadmap
Stage 1a delivers one product on one band. Each later stage adds bands, resolution, products, and satellites.
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Stage 1a, offered now
A data pipeline on Himawari Band 7 at 3.9 µm. It detects and locates fires, sets data jurisdiction and processing requirements, and installs and operates one minimum viable product on sovereign compute.
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Stage 1b, next
Adds up to three bands, starting with Bands 14 and 11, to improve location and temperature accuracy and reduce false positives.
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Stages 2 to 4, future
A satellite mission designed with customers to improve revisit and geolocation: preliminary design, critical design, then build, launch, and operations.
Services
Data pipeline builds
The Fire method, applied to your sources: satellite and sensor data taken in, located, fused, validated, and delivered on sovereign compute. We operate the pipeline once it is built.
Space cyber assessment
A fixed scope, fixed fee assessment for Australian space companies, answering CMMC, ITAR and EAR, and SOCI from one control set.
Recent writing
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Self-assessed does not mean unexamined
Most of CMMC Level 2 is self-assessed and third party assessment is suspended. That leaves you as the only person who examined the score you affirm.
Tell us where fire data falls short today.
A 20 minute call is enough to say whether Fire answers it, what Stage 1a would cover for your region, and the fee. Fixed before we start, with no variation without your sign off.