Problem Statement
Based on the statistics from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), wildfires exhausted 10 million acres of land in 2016 and brought $6 billion irrecoverable damages from 1995 to 2014 in the United States. Wildfires not only impact the wildlife, but more importantly endanger human lives. Therefore, early detection of wildfires before they get out of control is an urgent requirement. Wildfires are often initiated in remote forest areas where the common fire detection methods such as lookout tower stations fail to detect such fires in a timely manner. Moreover, conventional detection approaches can barely provide sufficient fire information about the precise fire locations, the orientation of fire expansion.
