No Grand Prize in the Wildfire XPRIZE, but a 10-Minute Detection Target

The $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition honored finalists whose work included wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones. No team walked away with either of the two grand prizes. The First Prize track for space-based detection challenged teams to accurately detect all fires across a large swath of Australia within 10 minutes. Ars Technica notes such technology could prove helpful as wildfire disasters grow costlier.