Heavy smoke from wildfires in northern Alberta and British Columbia fill the air over Yellowknife on Sept. 23, 2023.
Alberta is investing in artificial intelligence in an effort to predict where a wildfire may ignite before it happens, a move its tech partners say could save up to $5 million a year.
"In the past and currently, we know what we have for fuels , we know what's available to burn, and we know through our weather forecasting how bad the weather is going to be." Trenchard said looking at the interaction between the fuels and the weather helps to predict the risk to an area. "It's a next-day fire-likelihood forecast," said Graham Erickson, senior lead machine learning developer with AltaML, which uses Microsoft's Azure AI technology to build its own software.
Erickson said Alberta has historically had a "risk averse" culture and would spend a lot of money on resources that don't end up being used, costing $2 million to $5 million a year. The new software could change that, he said. The AI software provides additional information to duty officers, enabling them to make crucial decisions more quickly.
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