Solving Wildfire Podcast

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The team at Ostrich Air and Firebot Labs has a strong record of overcoming both technological hurdles for robotic systems, and regulatory hurdles for drones. They're true engineers, who get to the real root of a problem - including the human element of any system. Whether that be operational i…

Vienna spent the last 6 years stationed at a Lookout Tower in southern Idaho, interacting across several agencies for all aspects of forest management. She took a round-about path to her career in land management, and shares many thoughtful and balanced viewpoints from her time there, and what she …

Ziv has built Kaizen Aero by serving a wide array of clients with heavy lift (500 lbs) and long duration drones (up to 5 hours). Clients range from NASA and the Navy, to Google and John Deere, having started in Hollywood using drones for cinema. He has a healthy conviction that "a drone is jus…

Conversation with Kane Steinbruecker, Chief Fire Warden of Clearwater-Potlatch Timber Protective Association in Idaho. Kane has been in fire his whole career, starting in high school 25 years ago. In this conversation, we get a sense of how the CPTPA organization interfaces with the several other g…

Jeff Baxter is the founder of Baxter Aerospace developing a long-duration drone, giving eyes in the sky all day or all night to incident commanders during active fire. As a former SpaceX engineer, Jeff leads a small team of other SpaceX alumni and experienced long duration drone engineers. Jeff sha…