Onboard machine learning and compact thermal imaging could turn satellites into real-time fire management tools to help officials on the ground.

Jon Kelvey
Jon Kelvey is a freelance science writer who began writing for Eos in 2019. His work has also appeared in publications such as Air & Space, Cancer Today, Slate, and Smithsonian. He's been a daily newspaper reporter with the Baltimore Sun Group since 2014 covering health and features, coming to journalism after a decade in the California wine industry. He has a bachelor of arts in cognitive science from the University of California, Berkeley.