The company's founder and CEO, Allison Wolff, stated that the platform creates a common operating picture for wildfire and nature resilience, a concept borrowed from the military and firefighting. The aim is to facilitate urgent, coordinated decisions in natural resource management and wildfire resilience building. Wolff believes that the issues Vibrant Planet is addressing are too significant to ignore, given the increasing damage from wildfires due to human-caused climate change.
Key takeaways:
- The amount of forest area burned by wildfires has increased by 320% from 1996 to 2021, due to human-caused climate change.
- Vibrant Planet, a startup, digitizes land mapping and uses AI to help users such as fire departments and government bureaus manage land and prepare for potential climate incidents like wildfires.
- The system allows different groups to collaborate on land management solutions, share knowledge, and test out different treatments for land to enhance its resilience.
- Vibrant Planet is creating a common operating picture for wildfire resilience and nature resilience, using a term borrowed from the military and firefighting, to emphasize the urgency of coordinated decisions in natural resource management.