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In January, wildfires destroyed Brianna Pagán’s California residence. It was a chaotic and terrifying time.
Earlier than evacuating, Pagán was utilizing an app to observe the fireplace’s unfold. However there have been lengthy delays between updates as a result of it was too windy to fly the planes that monitor fires.
So she needed to depend on mates and neighbors to make selections and plan the most secure evacuation route.
Pagán: “Calling neighbors to see the place they had been going or … the place the fireplace was relative to the place they had been.”
And after evacuating, she needed to wait and fear, not realizing that her residence had burned down.
However she says getting extra present info throughout a disaster must be potential. She’s an professional in satellite tv for pc expertise and labored in a satellite tv for pc knowledge middle.
She says personal firms and the army have already got satellites in orbit gathering high-resolution pictures of the Earth.
So she urges her business to make use of its expertise to seize helpful knowledge throughout fires and different disasters and create methods to make it accessible to the general public.
Pagán: “That’s the place I feel there’s lots of people energy wanted is to consider how you can really, if the info is out there, get it to … the people who find themselves present process the pure catastrophe.”
Reporting credit score: Sarah Kennedy / ChavoBart Digital Media
