New South African real-time app to help firefighters track and monitor fires Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research have been working tirelessly to develop a fire detecting application in areas prone to wildfires. Phillip Frost, from the Remote Sensing Specialist: CSIR Meraka Institute, says they've been working on the application since 2003. The application is called AFIS (Advanced Fire Information System). It is a real-time platform that allows firefighters to track and monitor fire breakouts. Frost says the app uses Nasa satellites to track down fires and detect these fires. Listen to the radio interview at http://ift.tt/2ievksM or visit the realtime website at http://ift.tt/20zu3ek or grab the app from http://ift.tt/2iew9St.
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