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XPRIZEWildfire is a 4-year, $11 million competition incentivizing the innovation of firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires so that humanity and beneficial wildfire can safely co-exist. The prize aims to transform current wildfire management approaches through the development of new technologies that can rapidly and accurately detect, characterize, and respond to wildfires before they become destructive.

a.livestream-anchordisplay: block; position: relative; top: -250px; visibility: hidden; XPRIZE Wildfire is offered in partnership with Co-Title Sponsors Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Pacific Gas & Electric, Presenting Sponsor Minderoo Foundation, Bonus Prize Sponsor Lockheed Martin and Supporting Sponsors Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Costa Navarino, American Family Insurance, Fairfax Financial, and individual benefactors.

$5M Space-Based Wildfire Detection and Intelligence Track (Track A) will address the greatest barrier to how we currently fight fires by rapidly and accurately detecting all fires across a vast and remote area and transmitting data to ground stations.

$5M Autonomous Wildfire Response Track (Track B) will transform how fires are managed and fought by rapidly and autonomously detecting and completely suppressing a destructive, high-risk fire in an environmentally challenging area with dramatically greater speed, accuracy, and precision than current best-in-class solutions, leaving any decoy fires untouched.

$1M Lockheed Martin Accurate Detection Intelligence Bonus Prize.

XPRIZE Wildfire will spur innovation across a wide range of firefighting technologies, transforming the practices of a crucial industry that have not seen major change in a century. The resulting technology will dramatically improve the detection and suppression of destructive wildfires, enabling safe management of all high-risk fires.

The XPRIZE Wildfire Judging Panel is composed of external experts who possess the subject matter experience to evaluate, verify, and validate the teams' solutions. It includes professionals in fire science and management, geophysics, engineering, and more.

Around the world, the severity of Extreme Wildfire Events (EWEs) is increasing, driving over 80% of fire-related damages globally and costing an approximate $350 billion in damages annually in the United States alone. EWEs spread at a faster rate and burn larger areas at higher intensities, wreak havoc on ecosystems, cause long-term global economic burdens, and often result in devastating injuries and loss of life. Despite these high environmental and economic costs, fire management technologies have not evolved significantly in decades and best practices have not changed in almost a century.

XPRIZE Wildfire will incentivize teams from around the world to innovate across a wide range of technologies in two complementary tracks designed to transform how fires are detected, managed, and fought.

XPRIZE Wildfire is offered in partnership with Co-Title Sponsors Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Presenting Sponsor Minderoo Foundation, Bonus Prize Sponsor Lockheed Martin, Supporting Sponsor Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and benefactors Nichola Eliovits and Michael Antonov.

Global collaborators from the U.S. Fire Administration / FEMA, the Aspen Institute, NASA, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, the Australian Space Agency, USDA Forest Service, CAL FIRE, the XPRIZE Biodiversity and Conservation Brain Trust, and XPRIZE Wildfire Advisory Board were instrumental in the launch of XPRIZE Wildfire and will have continued involvement over the course of the competition.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation fosters path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area. Visit Moore.org or follow @MooreFound.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit www.pge.com and www.pge.com/about/newsroom.

.donate-fixed display: none !important The Competition Guidelines (updated to Version 2.1 on March 4, 2024) summarize the high-level requirements and procedures of the competition. These guidelines are based upon extensive research and consultation with dozens of experts and hundreds in our online community, including fire incident chiefs, wildland smokejumpers, fire investigators, forest specialists, testing specialists, and researchers across a wide array of relevant fields.

XPRIZE competitions are driven by teams of innovative groups and individuals, comprising subject matter experts, enthusiasts, start-ups, student teams, amateurs, and all problem-solvers in between. A winning idea can come from anyone, anywhere.

Note: The competition is void in those countries where prohibited or restricted by U.S. law. XPRIZE reserves the right to limit, or restrict upon notice, participation in the competition to any person or entity at any time for any reason. Teams may withdraw from the competition as set forth in the Competitor Agreement.

Teams will be responsible for the total costs of their participation in the competition, including R&D, general operations, and travel, among other costs. All teams are encouraged to seek sponsorships, partnerships, or investment funding.

Teams should refer to the complete Competition Guidelines for more details about judging criteria, competition milestones, and official activities. Complete competition criteria and procedures will be released in the forthcoming Competition Rules & Regulations.

XPRIZE will recruit an Advisory Board composed of experts. XPRIZE will seek to ensure the expertise of the Advisory Board is diverse enough to understand and advise on a variety of relevant subject matter areas. This board will remain in place throughout the competition to advise XPRIZE regarding the competition.

XPRIZE will recruit a highly-qualified Judging Panel. XPRIZE will seek to ensure the expertise of the Judging Panel is diverse enough to fairly evaluate the various technologies and approaches that teams may develop during the competition. The Judging Panel will convene to collaborate, review guidelines and rules, ask questions, and ensure that they are fully able to judge the competition in a fair and appropriate manner.

XPRIZE Wildfire is a four-year, $11 million competition incentivizing the innovation of firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires so that humanity and beneficial wildfire can safely co-exist. The prize aims to transform current wildfire management approaches through the development of new technologies that can rapidly and accurately detect, characterize and respond to wildfires before they become destructive.

The $11M XPRIZE Wildfire is a 4-year competition to innovate firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires. It is a global competition that challenges teams to develop innovative technologies to revolutionize wildfire management and save countless lives and property.

Indicium Dynamics: Collating data from various sources, delivering information in real-time, aiding swift and informed decisions, and connecting machines and people seamlessly, scalarly, and flexibly.

The XPRIZE Wildfire challenge represents an opportunity to bring tangible solutions to a pressing issue. Team Fire Foresight offers practical approaches to real-world wildfire management challenges. Learn more about the XPRIZE Wildfire challenge below:

We invite you to join us in this collaborative endeavor as we strive to develop a more proactive and informed approach to wildfire management. To learn more about the XPRIZE Wildfire challenge or to contact the Fire Foresight team, please reach us at in...@indicium-dynamics.com.au

This cohort will equally share a milestone prize $750,000. Teams will move on to the semifinals. In the final competition, teams will have one minute to detect fires across a landscape larger than entire states or countries, and 10 minutes to characterize and report data with the least false positives to decision-makers on the ground. It is an $11 million competition, with a space-based track and an autonomous track.

The full list of competitors includes Akula Tech, Be The Change Analytics, BlacksharkAI, Chooch, DeepFire, Ember Guard, Fire Eye, Generative Intelligence, Redback Fire Team, SIRIUS Wildfire Alliance, Snuffed, SpectraCan, Team FUEGO, Mayday (Guardian Space), and Woolpert DI Cloud Geo Team.

The group has helped to launch an $11 million, 4-year competition called XPRIZE Wildfire where individuals and companies compete in two categories: Space-based detection of wildfires and autonomous detection and response to wildfires.

BATON ROUGE - Last August, at the height of an exceptional drought, Louisiana experienced more than 550 wildfires. The largest, the Tiger Island Fire, burned more than 31,000 acres. Wildfires like these are increasing in frequency around the globe, threatening ecosystems, infrastructure and human lives, and the ability to predict and detect them poses a critical challenge.

LSU Department of Environmental Sciences, or DES, Professor Supratik Mukhopadhyay is meeting this challenge with the power of artificial intelligence, or AI. Mukhopadhyay is working with a team of experts in AI and wildfires to build a system to predict and detect wildfires with greater accuracy.

The system is called DeepFire. It has just advanced to the next round in the Space-Based Wildfire Detection and Intelligence Track of XPrize Wildfire, a four-year, $11 million competition to develop innovative fire fighting technologies. Mukhopadhyay and his team have netted $37,500 in prize money for this round.

In DeepFire, systems of wildfire prediction and detection work in tandem. The system predicts locations of potential fires by examining satellite and weather station data, as well as information about previous fire behavior. It generates maps at different time scales, which fire managers may use to deploy unused resources in preparation for a blaze.

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