FireLoc: Low-latency Multi-modal Wildfire Geolocation

Firefighters still rely on coarse remote sensing and inaccurate eyewitness reports to localize spreading wildfires. Despite advances in sensing, UAVs, and computer vision, the community has yet to combine the right modalities to achieve effective wildfire geolocalization and spotting. We present FireLoc, a fast and accurate wildfire crowdsensing system that localizes and maps wildfires combining ground cameras and landscape data.