Embertrace
Frontline Wildfire Defense

Embertrace

Find where the smoke started.

Satellite heat picks where to look. An ALERTCalifornia camera shows whether smoke is there. Embertrace turns both into a coordinate and the region around it.

Satellite
GOES-18 and GOES-19, every five minutes
Cameras
ALERTCalifornia, at most two frames
Result
A coordinate and its 90% region
Boundary
No news, no dispatch, no confirmed coordinate

A research prototype for the first minutes of a fire, not a dispatch product.

A published detection showing a GOES thermal footprint beside two camera sightlines

Automatic

Satellite-triggered detections

Public heat starts a bounded camera check. Every saved detection keeps its frames, its solve and the reason it published, so a verdict can be read back and questioned.

Open the queue

Access code required

Two camera sightlines crossing on a probable ignition origin near Mill Valley

Analyst

Locate smoke from a frame

Search a camera to pull its latest frame and pose, or upload your own image. One camera already gives a coordinate and its region. A second camera, or matching satellite heat, narrows it.

Open Locate

Access code required

A thermal pixel is active-heat evidence, not a confirmed ignition point, and visible imagery cannot establish heat, hotspots or acreage. Estimates carry uncertainty and are not a substitute for an incident report.