I first learned about California's Fire Integrated Real-time Intelligence System (FIRIS) from Bill Gabbert's Fire Aviation when he wrote about Orange County's trial program of FIRIS in September 2019 (go here for Bill's article). Bill said in part: "The system utilizes a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with infrared and radar sensors that can see through smoke. The plane provides real-time fire perimeter mapping and live high definition video to support supercomputer-based wildfire predictive spread modeling." Bill's articles on Fire Aviation tagged FIRIS are found here.
My interest in FIRIS was rekindled when I came across a video from Cal OES on the FIRIS program. I thought that some of you might be interested in watching this video to learn about the FIRIS program, allow about five minutes to watch the video.
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