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New system lets world monitor California forest fires

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Laura S. Marshall, [email protected]

When wildfires forced a group of Northern California students from their homes last year, they decided to work to keep the same thing from happening to others. Ranging in age from 10 to 13 years old, the grade-schoolers came up with the idea for Forest Guard, an early detection system for forest fires that relies on a new 360° solar-powered camera and Wi-Fi technology. The idea won the global First LEGO League Climate Actions competition in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2009. Impressed by the idea, European executives from Sony offered to help the team develop the system, and a...Read full article

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    Published: February 2010
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