FDL Australia big think Workshop

Australia - Thursday 2nd December, from 09:00 - 12:00 AEDT

United Kingdom - Wednesday 1st December, from 22:00 - 01:00* GMT

USA - Wednesday 1st December, from 14:00 - 17:00 PT / 17:00 - 20:00 ET

Agenda

  • 09:00 - Welcome

  • 09:05 - Introduction to ML-enabled results

  • 09:15 - Bushfires: Current practices and opportunities for the future panel

  • 09:35 - The Minderoo Fire Shield Mission

  • 09:45 - Setting the scene

  • 09:50 - FDL bushfire challenge topic presentations

  • 10:15 - Break

  • 10:30 - Breakouts

    • Bushfire topic 1: Hybrid fire spread and suppression modelling - Jamboard

    • Bushfire topic 2: Fire risk and measurements from space - Jamboard

    • Bushfire topic 3: ML for fires on the extremes edges - processing in space, processing on personal devices - Jamboard

    • Bushfire topic 4: Fireground measurements, ground truth and data integration - Jamboard

    • Bushfire topic 5: Resource management decision support - Jamboard

  • 10:55 - Breakout session share back

  • 11:35 - What is the 'secret sauce', learnt from 6 years of interdisciplinary programs

  • 11:45 - Summary and next steps

  • 11:50 - Close

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Pre-read material. Bushfire Situational Awareness and Systems report

We are delighted to share with you the Bushfire Situational Awareness and Systems report which we hope will spark good conversations and ideas.

Please click here for the full report.

Motivated by the catastrophic Australian fire season in 2019/2021 and the Bushfire Data Quest, Trillium ran a user-led concurrent design workshop on bushfire situational awareness and management systems. The workshop brought together active firefighters with data and technology experts to define current best practices, and to identify strategic opportunities for applying new technology with maximum impact.

In the Bushfire Situational Awareness and Systems report we present a system-level overview of bushfire management in Australia and New Zealand, with a particular focus on fireground operations. We identify challenges and significant pain points experienced by active firefighters, and show how technology might solve issues in the near future.

This report has been released as an open report in the hope it proves useful to a broad range of stakeholders - organisations seeking to understand fire management processes and the needs of ground crew, companies developing technical solutions, government departments who want to understand possible applications of technology, firefighters at different levels, and the general public who want a broad overview of the firefighting effort.

If you could like to get in touch to discuss any aspects of the report, please do get in touch by sending us an email.