Alert-Fire: About to transform fire risk detection in renewables

Alert-Fire is developing a fire warning system for renewable energy infrastructures, combining AI, satellite imagery and ground data. Nearing completion, it will provide key information for fire prevention.

Published On: 04/25Categories: News

The Alert-Fire project aims to develop an advanced wildfire risk warning system for renewable energy production facilities and infrastructure through the development of innovative technologies for processing time series of satellite images, ground data and artificial intelligence.

The Alert Fire project, supported by CDTI Innovation through a partially repayable grant co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF 2021–2027), involves Tesicnor and the THERRAE remote sensing research group from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA).

Fire Alert Example of map

This system will be implemented and tested in several municipalities in Navarre, as well as in a client company’s wind energy production facilities. Detailed annual static maps of vegetation flammability, dynamic maps of vegetation moisture content and other meteorological variables of interest will be generated, with a particular focus on the interface between forests and agriculture, areas that are particularly critical. This information will be used as input for the development of an artificial intelligence-based wildfire risk model, the output of which can be directed to those responsible for renewable energy installations in the field, both through mobile alerts and a dedicated viewer.

Example of a humidity graph 2025.

The project is nearing completion and is expected to provide high quality information for the next wildfire season to help manage and minimise the risk of wildfires that could cause or affect a site. In addition, thanks to the funding available, a researcher has been hired to analyse all the relevant data sets that are critical for estimating the actual wildfire risk at high temporal resolution and with high spatial detail in the vicinity of the facilities.

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