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We Are OroraTech

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    The number of wildfires and devastation&nbsp;
    has increased dramatically in recent years.
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    Modern situational awareness is required&nbsp;
    to help us better assess situations and&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    make better decisions by reacting to fires more&nbsp;
    quickly. OroraTech analyses the high-resolution&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    long-wave and mid-wave thermal images captured&nbsp;
    by a space-based sensor network and provides&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    critical insights with high confidence rates&nbsp;
    about fire locations and the fire spread in a&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    very short time. Currently, we send an update&nbsp;
    to the emergency services every 3 hours, even&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    by email or text message. Within the next few&nbsp;
    years, we will expand our space-based sensor&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    network to capture every place on Earth every&nbsp;
    15 minutes. This technology is not only powerful,&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    it is extremely accurate. We can analyze even the&nbsp;
    smallest fires which are only as large as a car&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    or a small house and also monitor the ongoing&nbsp;
    danger of a particular fire, based on the fire&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    radiative power it generates in megawatts. Our&nbsp;
    unique solution shows predictability and can&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    send timely warnings before a fire gets out of&nbsp;
    control. A prescribed fire in New Mexico could have&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    been monitored and its escape early detected with&nbsp;
    our technology. Since the satellites are looking&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    at all times, the spread of the fire could have&nbsp;
    been prevented with this detection ability and&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    $4 billion of damage could have been saved. In&nbsp;
    this way we can save costs and better protect&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    life property and critical infrastructure. In&nbsp;
    the same way, we minimize human reconnaissance&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    missions with aircraft or drones. Our mission and&nbsp;
    vision is to contribute to a sustainable Earth and&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    climate change mitigation and adaptation, and&nbsp;
    with our growing global wildfire protection&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    network we are taking an important step&nbsp;
    in that direction.
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    We are OroraTech
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