AI Assistance for Firefighting Enabled by Real-Time Satellite Data
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Abstract
The fourth industrial revolution is underway, where machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have made significant advancements and are changing industries. The Cognitive Mission Manager (CMM) is a research and development program at Lockheed Martin developing a cognitive assistant for firefighter operations, which includes creating a digital twin of an entire wildland fire incident by fusing real-world data from satellites, aircraft, and ground assets into a system-of-systems and environmental digital twin in NVIDIA Omniverse. Through this digital twin, CMM is able to show predictions of fire spread and use reinforcement learning to provide recommended courses of action. With these advances in AI technologies, firefighting and other complex operational environments could be standing on the precipice of a monumental tipping point that improves the use of data from satellites and other sources. This paper will discuss these AI advancements, how near-real-time data streams from satellites can feed into new digital-twin and cognitive assistance capabilities, and how they can assist in expanding the multi-domain operational capabilities of firefighting. It will also discuss results from a pilot program implementing some of these capabilities in parallel with real-time firefighting operations.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".