The stack
One fire, five witnesses.
A summer 2023 fire above Okanagan Lake. 250 km², read before, during and after.
Sentinel-2 · Landsat 9
Industry · Wildfire
See a fire through its own smoke.
Detect, confirm, forecast, alert. Cascade opens an incident only when two independent signals agree. ForestScope reads risk before the season and damage after it.
- Cascade
- ForestScope
- Atlas
- Edge hardware designs
49.94° N · 119.59° W · 250 km²
A fire, before, during and after.
After
Heat
Shortwave
Smoke
Before
Patch 01 · 2,845 ha
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023). Landsat 9 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Real
Every layer is public Sentinel-2 or Landsat data over a public 2023 fire. Severity and the patch are computed by a script in this site's repository.
Illustrative
This is not Cascade's client deployment, which stays private. The recommended action is an example of what an analyst would do next.
What runs here.
Each product below works on wildfire and forestry today. Atlas is the engine they share.
Cascade
Wildfire and natural hazards on the same engines. Deployed in a client environment; only snippets can be shown.
ForestScope
Daily fire risk, hotspots, perimeters and damage, plus biomass and carbon from the same imagery.
Atlas
The engine under every product: fusion, registration, detection, and an agent on the map.
OpenEdge hardware designs
Edge appliance and sensor node designs for fire camps where the link drops. Designed and simulated.
Open
What it has shown.
Numbers from real runs, each with the caveat it needs. Nothing here is a claim the run did not make.
- 2
independent signals before Cascade opens an incident
Fire nodes within 5 km in 2 hours, lightning within 3 km in 24 hours, repeat passes. The same rule DefenseScope uses.
- 1, 3, 6 h
spread forecast attached to every incident
With ignition risk, on the incident record.
- 15 min
target from acquisition to a published alert
A design target, in the standard alerting format.
How it works.
Open any part for the method, the numbers and where to read more.
Mask cloud, water and known heat sources. Gather nearby fire nodes, lightning and repeat passes. Refuse to open an incident on a single piece of evidence. Attach ignition risk and spread. Publish a standard alert.
Each incident carries its record: camera, satellite and node evidence, each with its time.
Why it matters.
Public figures on the size of the problem.
Canada's 2023 season burned 17.2 million hectares, the largest on record, and 232,000 people were evacuated.
Source: industry research (Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre)A published fusion study found that combining camera, satellite and weather inputs detected fires 13.6% faster.
Source: industry research (Bhamra et al., Remote Sensing, 2023)
Wildfire and forestry · Next step
See it on your own ground.
Send an area and a question. I will say what the sensors can and cannot answer before anyone builds anything.