WindTL
The Technology
WindTL, developed by Improving Aviation, is a decision support tool designed for real-time situational awareness, pre-fire risk assessment, and predictive wildfire modeling. Backed by NASA, NOAA, and Google, WindTL leverages AI-powered models to deliver accurate wildfire spread, ember behavior, and ignition risk predictions, equipping field personnel with the intelligence needed to make proactive, data-driven decisions.
What Sets WindTL Apart?
- Pre-Fire Risk & Scenario Planning: Identifies high-risk wildfire zones and simulates fire behavior using AI and physics-based models, enabling strategic mitigation and resource optimization before ignition.
- Advanced Ember Spread Prediction: Forecasts ember movement, addressing the primary cause of wind-event driven wildfires and enabling targeted prevention efforts.
- Modular Situational Awareness: Integrates real-time from UAS, sensors, satellites, and weather feeds into the wildfire models and generates a real-time operational picture for better coordination and decision-making.
- Reliable & Scalable: Integrated with a robust cloud architecture, ensuring near-real time processing and scalability.
- Integrated with External Systems: WindTL is integrated with TAK and 3rd party GIS systems.
Applications
Pre-Fire Risk & Preventive Mitigation
- High-Risk Ignition Mapping: Uses machine learning to predict fire-prone areas based on fuel conditions, terrain, and historical data.
- Scenario Modeling & Prevention: Simulates wildfire spread under different conditions, guiding pre-fire mitigation efforts and prescribed burn planning.
- Urban-Wildland Interface Protection: Identifies at-risk communities, enabling early evacuation orders.
Active Wildfire Management & Emergency Response
- Real-Time Fire Tracking: Updates wildfire models using satellite imagery, weather data, and UAS reconnaissance.
- Resource & Evacuation Planning: Optimizes response strategies by predicting ember-driven ignitions near residential areas.
- Public Safety Alerts: Enhances early warning systems to mitigate wildfire risks.
Benefits
- Proactive Wildfire Management: Pre-fire risk mapping and real-time scenario planning to improve proactive mitigation strategies.
- Optimized Resource Allocation: Tracks personnel, vehicles, and firefighting assets, ensuring efficient deployment.
- Full Situational Awareness Combines field sensor data, UAS imagery and weather, and ground personnel inputs to update the wildfire prediction.
- Advanced Wildfire Spread & Ember Modeling: Combines physics-based with machine learning models to predict fire behavior and ember ignition.
- Integrated with a Portable Airspace Management System: WindTL is integrated via TAK, with an in-house airspace management tool that enhances airspace awareness and reconnaissance, supporting safe and autonomous operations.
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Company Contact
This technology is commercially available for purchase. For additional information please contact Rocio Frej Vitalle at rocio@improvingaviation.com.
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