Firefighting planner

Transcript:

1.Introduce yourself (2 sec): What is your name and your team’s name?
Hi this is Daijiro and Minami, from team firefighting planner.

2. Lead us in (3 sec): What topic does your solution address, or what is your passion?
We addressed three pain points found in journey against wildfire.

3. Name your solution (5 sec): Provide a title and tagline to catch your audience’s attention (What do people gain? Where is the opportunity? What problem does it solve?)
Our solution, “Firefighting planner,” is a one-stop platform for citizens and firefighters to protect lives and nature together.

4. Describe your idea (10 sec): How does it work? (Display a prototype. Describe a user’s experience. Include how data and technology make your solution possible.)
As a citizen, I can report wildfires and ask for help.

As a firefight team manager, referring to satellite data and citizen reports, I can make and share my fire mitigation plan.

As a firefighter, I can learn from past fire suppression activities.

5. Look into the future (10 sec): Paint a picture (What will your idea change? Tantalize your audience with what it could be. What can your solution do for people, the world, and beyond?)
Our solution will reduce three painful numbers of wildfire: burned area, economic losses, and # of houses at risk.

Let’s save more lives and nature together.

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1. Team: Firefighting planner
   Member: Daijiro, Minami
   Collaborative planning tool for firefighting against wildfire
   NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2019
   

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2. Addressed 3 pain points in journey against wildfire
   Source: Ars Technica, European Forrest Institute, Forest Stewards Guild
   Refrain from

   actions potentially

   trigger wildfire
   Predict wildfire
   Become aware

   of incidents
   Knowledge
   management
   Evacuation
   Firefighting
   1. Communication and coordination among citizens and firefighters
   get more difficult/expensive as a wildfire spreads more broadly
   
   2. Rapid firefighting planning is required since fire spreads
   exponentially
   
   3. Learnings and skills from first-hand experiences are not fully
   shared among firefighters
   Journey 

   against 

   wildfire
   Pain points
   !
   

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3. Way forward
   Potential

   impact
   To realize

   the impact
   Reduction in burned area: ~8.8 mil acres burned in 2018
   
   Reduction in losses: ~$12.5 bil insured losses from the 2017 October and
   December wildfires
   
   Reduction in # of homes at high risk: 4.5 mil US homes at high risk (2017)
   Collect more data to implement the accurate simulation model
   
   • Improve availability of satellite data (FIRMS): Minimize delay, increase grid granularity
   
   • Keep track of fire suppression activities day by day
   
   Test with real users to improve usability
   
   Discover more potential use cases (e.g., Earthquake)
   Source: National Interagency Fire Center, Insurance Information Institute, Verisk, Moody’s
   

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4. DEMO
   

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5. Let’s save more lives and nature together
   App
   https://firefighting-planner.dev
   GitHub
   https://github.com/watilde/firefighting-planner
   OpenNEX
   https://opennex.org/project/projectDetail/275
   Deck
   https://speakerdeck.com/watilde/firefighting-planner
   Try our app!
   

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