德勤：人工智能灭火（英文版）（9页）.pdf

1、Wildfiresa terrifying,but by no means a new phenomenonhave become more commonplace,escaping an environmental equilibrium and exacerbating the very conditions that give rise to their frequency and severity.The Californian wildfires of 2020 released 91 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas CO2 int

2、o the atmosphere,considerable against the global CO2 absorption capacity of forests estimated at 7.6 billion metric tons annually.1 The damage that ensues is substantial and enduringwhat is lost in days can take generations to recover.Besides their longer-term environmental consequences,wildfires la

3、y waste to natural resources,and can harm or tragically end the lives of residents and those who risk life and limb to bring the inferno under control.Forecasting wildfires has been a focus of research for decades,but their growth in number and size demands more attention and better tools to tackle

4、this environmental issue.The FireAId initiative,spearheaded by the World Economic Forum(WEF),aims to address one of the opportunities in fighting wildland fires through the use of artificial intelligence(AI)to help those fighting fires better predict where fire could start and how active fires may s

5、pread.Deloitte and Nvidia have collaborated on this initiative,studying global fire history and trends,speaking with numerous firefighters,analyzing data and selecting the appropriate technologies to build and pilot tools to help firefighters tackle the escalation in wildfires.IntroductionFighting F

6、ire with AIWildfires are a growing problem,their flames fanned by global warming2Fighting Fire with AI|A moving targetThis report provides a view on the challenges global warming presents to modeling of wildfires and how data,tools and technology can help in the fight against one of the most formida