Israel Aerospace Industry is scheduled to participate in the international XPRIZE Wildfire competition and will offer a unique solution for fighting forest fires.
The aerospace industry's solution includes the operation of two drones synchronized with each other. The first aircraft is used as a detection aircraft equipped with an electro-optical radar that scans the environment and can detect fires at a great distance.
The expertise of the fire department lies in its ability to perform calculations through smoke and accurately identify the source of the fire in its early stages.
The collected information is automatically analyzed and transmitted to the second plane as a flight path, which allows this plane to drop fire retardant on the heart of the fire, without human intervention.
In the last ten years, forest fires have caused enormous damage worldwide, estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars, due to the destruction of infrastructure, loss of tourism income and damage to agriculture.
Significant ecological damage and the loss of many species resulted from the burning of vast forested areas. For example, the fires that occurred in Australia in 2020 resulted in economic damage of about 100 billion dollars and the destruction of about 46 million dunams of land.
The fires also claimed the lives of hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands to evacuate their homes. Similarly, in Greece, fires the following year resulted in the loss of 102 lives and the destruction of approximately one million dunams of crops.
President and CEO of IAI, Boaz Levy: "IAI is proud to participate in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition and will use the extensive knowledge gained from the military field to help save human lives, preserve the quality of the environment, and especially fight forest fires.
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