Startup AiDash raises $50 million for technology that uses AI and satellites to detect wildfire risk – CIO News

Hundreds of startups and small businesses offer services and technologies aimed at improving forest management, forest fire detection and response, and various wildfire and forest fire services. AiDash uses artificial intelligence to search satellite photos for faults and changes along power utility electric transmission lines, such as where vegetation has grown and whether trees are encroaching on the lines.