{"id":195823,"date":"2026-03-13T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/new-clemson-ai-tool-uses-rgb-images-to-help-firefighters-track-wildfire-heat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:15:15","slug":"new-clemson-ai-tool-uses-rgb-images-to-help-firefighters-track-wildfire-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/new-clemson-ai-tool-uses-rgb-images-to-help-firefighters-track-wildfire-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"New Clemson AI tool uses RGB images to help firefighters track wildfire heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/new-clemson-ai-tool-uses-rgb-images-to-help-firefighters-track-wildfire-heat\">New Clemson AI tool uses RGB images to help firefighters track wildfire heat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/new-clemson-ai-tool-uses-rgb-images-to-help-firefighters-track-wildfire-heat\">https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/new-clemson-ai-tool-uses-rgb-images-to-help-firefighters-track-wildfire-heat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 23:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wpde.com\">wpde.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Innovative AI Tool<\/strong>: Clemson University researchers, led by Fatemah Afghah, have developed an AI tool that uses regular color images (RGB) to detect dangerous heat inside wildfires.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Pattern Recognition in Images<\/strong>: The AI models created by Afghah\u2019s team are trained on both RGB images and thermal images collected from previous controlled burns. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Temperature Estimation<\/strong>: The technology can estimate fire temperature using only RGB images, eliminating the need for thermal cameras.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Reduced Field Efforts and Data<\/strong>: This method reduces the number of steps required in the field and lowers data transmission burdens for first responders.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Cost Efficiency<\/strong>: The approach is notably cheaper compared to traditional methods, especially beneficial for using drones to track and combat wildfires.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hidden Hotspots Detection<\/strong>: The AI can identify hidden hotspots under vegetation or smoke, aiding fire officials in better managing wildfires.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Clemson AI tool uses RGB images to help firefighters track wildfire heat https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/new-clemson-ai-tool-uses-rgb-images-to-help-firefighters-track-wildfire-heat Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wpde.com\/resources\/media\/0a13b811-84da-4508-a35e-b7dbd42ad1b1-jumbo16x9_49368485_10156880514544932_7586490250080288768_o.jpg?1548719203582","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195825,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195823\/revisions\/195825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}