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Friday, November 20, 2009

Fire Locator Aggregates Wildfire Data

Pitney Bowes' research arm, Advanced Concepts and Technologies, recently launched the Fire Locator, a software-based data aggregator available to the public and public-safety agencies, said Arthur Berrill, the company's vice president. Fire Locator brings together information from multiple sources on wildfires — and internationally, bush fires — in a public-accessible console, Berrill said. Sources include NASA's satellite-based MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer), which captures geothermal differences on the Earth's surface, including hot spots that are likely to be wildfires, he said. "One of the main challenges was that the wildfires in ...

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