In the wake of California's devastating wildfires, new technology is emerging that promises

to transform the way blazes are monitored, fought, and ultimately prevented.

The Earthfire Alliance is a public-private partnership that includes Google, the Gordon and

Betty Moore Foundation, Mindaru Foundation,

the Environmental Defense Fund, and a startup called Muon Space.

Executive Director Brian Collins says the alliance was created to address the increase in high

severity, high-intensity fires, using new innovations.

Earth Fire Alliance was stood up to lead that initiative and bring space-based capability

to the wildfire resiliency issue.

And we did that in partnership with Nuon Space, who was the technical lead to bring the

the capabilities of the modern space industry to bear on a problem that is increasing in

intensity across the world, and specifically in the Western United States today.

The first of the Alliance's Firesat satellites will head to space via SpaceX in March.

More are expected to be launched early next year, and with those, initial operational service for early adopters.

Johnny Dyer, CEO and founder of MUNSpace, worked at the first venture-backed new space company, Skybox,

and when it was acquired by Google, helped implement satellite data into Google Maps and other apps.

He says the drop in costs, coupled with the increase in capability,

are making the service possible now. One of the core kind of thesis for Mewon when we started the

company was that there's going to be this TikTok feedback mechanism with AI and things like

satellite data. So we're now at a place where we can build large constellations

of mission targeted satellites and collect massive quantities of new and important data.

But we're also in a place where the technology with things like AI is set up to enable us

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