Planetary intelligence: Why it's key for climate decision-making

This past summer, in Australia, a new and increasingly critical example of advanced fire intelligence was used for the first time. Capable of simulating around 10 to 15 kilometres of fire-front movement in roughly 30 seconds, a newly developed system that had been years in the making allowed emergency teams to rapidly test different scenarios as bushfire conditions shifted on the ground.

For a country facing increasingly severe fire seasons that have killed dozens of people, destroyed thousands of homes and generated multi-billion-dollar economic costs, these capabilities are becoming ever more significant.

Embedded in operational settings by emergency management agencies, CSIRO’s Spark bushfire modelling system supports real-time fire spread modelling and response planning across active incidents.

It is an example of the concept of “planetary intelligence” — or how artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to bring together vast and previously fragmented streams of environmental data into usable, real-time decision support.

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