Aerial view of a Canadian landscape of dense forest wrapped around a wide blue lake.

Who it’s for

For researchers and scientists

For remote-sensing, fire-behaviour and data scientists.

What you can do today

Reference mode, no sign-in
Explore the Research Workbench with reference evidence
Datasets, source delivery, data quality and evaluation screens, on reference data, without an account.
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Read the scientific briefing
The briefing track for professors, researchers and analysts. In English.
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Follow the data journey
Every step from a provider’s feed to a public record, and what is checked at each one. In English.
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Sign in for live datasets
The registered datasets, recent acquisitions and quarantine findings, with the catalogue and lineage behind them.
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Train and evaluate models on live data
The experiment and evaluation screens run on reference data today. Training on provider data waits on the rights to do so.

What it will not do for you

It does not call a model validated before independent review.
It does not hide failures. This program publishes negative results, not only wins.

The evidence for you

The scientific briefing track, the data journey, and the state of every source feed.

Scientific briefing trackThe data journeySource availability

How to get access

Reference mode needs no account. Live data needs an account, granted by the workspace’s owner for a stated purpose.

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Wildfire Ahead

We help agencies across Canada and the United States see wildfire risk earlier and understand it better. We do not issue alerts, and we do not decide what happens on a fire.

What is at stake

Forest, water, mountain and coast, and the communities inside them. In Canada, wildfire burned about 2.7 million hectares a year on average between 1994 and 2023, across roughly 7,000 fires a year. Lightning starts about 46% of those fires but accounts for about 83% of the area burned.

Why this is hard

A fire forecast is not a line on a map. It is a spread of possible futures, and the honest way to draw it is as a probability. National fire records disagree with one another on thresholds and geometry; a satellite that saw cloud did not observe an absence of fire; and a wind shift is a fork in the forecast.

What the platform does

Data foundation — brings decades of scattered fire records together without erasing what makes them different. It is not a complete record of every fire.
Forecast engine — runs many possible versions of a fire, not one. It does not predict what will happen.
Command support — puts geometry, trade-offs and unknowns in front of commanders faster. It does not decide, dispatch or command.
Public information — shows official information from your government, separated from our modelling. It does not issue alerts or evacuation orders.
Drone and sensing — supports agency-flown missions under their own aviation approvals. It does not fly, route or deconflict aircraft.

Where this stands

The programme advances one evidence gate at a time, and passing in one region does not authorize use in another. Several phases are deliberately gated behind evidence that does not exist yet.

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