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Pre-season fuel danger and firebreak readiness

Pre-season fuel danger and firebreak readiness
Wildfire burn extent — California — before / after

Fire agencies and electric utilities need to know, before the season, where fuel is dry and continuous and whether firebreaks and line-clearance corridors are actually clear — at a scale coarse daily sensors (MODIS 500 m, VIIRS 375 m) simply cannot resolve, while VHR tasking is too infrequent and costly to run over a landscape. ETD's 2 m multispectral twice weekly fuses NDVI/NDMI/MSI into a Vegetation Fuel Danger Composite and resolves a 10 m firebreak as five pixels — turning fuel and firebreak condition into a routine, landscape-wide, scene-calibrated layer that needs no local ground truth.

Before / after examples

Eaton Fire — Southern California
Eaton Fire — Southern California — before / after

ETD products for this

Fire Hazard Intelligence

Enhanced Multispectral (10-band, 2–4 m)

Elevation Map (BaseDEM)