A new artificial intelligence program will help identify wildfires as small as an acre by scanning images taken by weather satellites orbiting about 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. The AI program, developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and recently tested in Boulder, could dramatically cut the amount of time between identifying a fire and responding — minutes and hours that are critical to containing a blaze. Called the Next Generation Fire System, NOAA officials say it can process the deluge of data from the satellites — which capture images as frequently as every 30 seconds — and detect heat from fires smaller than a football field.

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