Wildfires have swept across Europe over recent years resulting in loss of human-life, forcing thousands to evacuate, and causing damage to homes, infrastructure, livestock, and local environment. Response to wildfire-events in Ireland involves multiple government departments, agencies and external organisations including; the Air Corps and Firefighters, on the frontline. The current challenge revolves around how we can better manage our response to wild-fire events here in Ireland, to reduce the threat to human-life as well as the economic and environmental cost. 

The highly-experienced CoPilot-AI interdisciplinary research team plan to carry-out a focused 12-month project employing the latest AI technologies (Drones, Robotics, Sensors, Machine Learning) and construct a Common Operational Picture (COP) digital platform, capable of smart multi-thematic sensor data-capture, highly-automated data-fusion, deep-learning & analysis, enabling more effective information-sharing and effective decision-making. Key disruptive-technology areas will include novel in-field drone robotic-sensing platforms, dynamic terrain and scene-analysis and multi-criteria risk-modelling.