Pharos Data · Fire watch and burn mapping
Catch the fire while it is small.
A veld fire at night can spread for hours before anyone sees the glow. In thermal, a new fire or a smouldering stump stands out from far away. A Pharos station sweeps your land for heat, checks that a burnt area is really out, and maps what burned.
The problem
Fires start where nobody is looking.
Fire season means long nights of watching and hoping. A fire can start far from the house, and a fire that looks out can flare again from a smouldering log hours later. After the fire, nobody is sure exactly what burned or where the breaks failed.
- Fires found late, at night, far from anyone
- Burnt areas that flare up again after the team leaves
- Firebreaks that were never properly checked
- No clear record of what burned for the insurer
What we offer
What the station does for you.
On high-risk nights the aircraft sweeps your land on thermal, looking for heat where there should be none.
After a fire, the aircraft checks the burnt area for hot spots that could start it again, and sends the positions to your team.
Before the season, your firebreaks are flown and checked from the air, with gaps and overgrowth marked on the map.
After a fire, a dated map of exactly what burned, for your records and your insurer.
Through the season
Before, during and after.
Fire work across the whole season, from one station.
Firebreaks flown and checked, with gaps and overgrowth marked on the map.
Thermal sweeps for heat where there should be none, with positions sent straight to your team.
The pilot watches the fire front from a safe distance and tells your team where it is heading.
Rekindle checks for hot spots, then a dated map of what burned.
How we do it
How it works on your ground.
- 01A station on the landThe same station that patrols for people patrols for heat.
- 02Sweeps on the nights that matterFlown on schedule in fire season and on demand when the risk is high.
- 03Positions straight to your teamA hot spot comes with a position, so the team drives to it, not towards a glow.
- 04A pilot on every flightA licensed pilot in our operations room flies every sweep and calls what they see.
Built by Pharos
Our own software, working for you.
The aircraft and station are DJI hardware. What makes them one service is software we wrote ourselves. Here is what it does for you on this kind of site.
Our own link between the station and the alarm panels, beams and electric fences you already run. When a zone trips, the aircraft goes up on its own. Nobody has to pick up a phone first.
Our EarthRanger link puts each flight, detection and incident on the map your rangers already work from, next to their patrols and collars. One picture of the reserve, not two.
Our evidence chain seals every clip and every flight log the moment it is captured, with the pilot, station, time and position attached. If anything were changed afterwards, it would show.
What you get
What lands with you.
- Heat alerts with positions during sweeps
- Hot spot checks after a fire
- Firebreak inspection maps before the season
- A dated burn area map after a fire
Questions
Fire watch and burn mapping, answered.
Can the drone fly near a fire?
The pilot keeps the aircraft at a safe distance and height. Thermal sees heat from far enough away that it does not need to fly into smoke.
Does this replace a fire team?
No. It tells your team where to go, earlier. The fire is fought by people on the ground.
Can it watch every night?
In fire season it can sweep on a schedule, and it goes up on demand when the risk is high.
Is this the same station as security?
Yes. The station that looks for people at night can look for heat.
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