Capability profile

EPiC satellite wildfire-detection system

Proposed EPiC satellite wildfire-detection and subscriber-alert system, supported by EPiC-lite camera development. Company design targets include sixteen satellites at 600 km, four-to-six-hour revisit, 5–10 m fire detection and 10 m geolocation. These are development claims; the website’s 2023 first-launch target has not been verified as achieved.

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Proposed space-based wildfire detection and alert service

What it enables

Core features

Sixteen-satellite constellation concept at approximately 600 km
Four-to-six-hour global revisit design target
Claimed 5–10 m fire detection and 10 m geolocation
Alert transmission to subscribed wildfire and infrastructure users
EPiC-lite camera development supported by CSA

Defence and security uses

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Proposed EPiC coverage and detection parameters (opens in a new tab)
4pi Lab · official company product
4pi proposes sixteen satellites at 600 km with global revisits every four to six hours, claimed detection of 5–10 m fires and geolocation within 10 m. Real-time transmission describes alerts after a detection, not uninterrupted observation of every point. Annual avoided-loss figures are predictions. The site still advertises a 2023 first-launch target.
Subscriber users and unconfirmed launch schedule (opens in a new tab)
4pi Lab · official company product
4pi identifies wildfire/forestry agencies, utilities, industrial operators and risk/insurance users as prospective subscribers. Its FAQ says the first satellite was targeted for 2023 and describes future tiered alerts. It does not document a completed launch, an in-orbit acceptance test, a paying operational customer or a presently purchasable service.
EPiC-lite small-business development contribution (opens in a new tab)
Canadian Space Agency · innovation program
CSA lists CAD 250,000 for 4pi Lab Incorporated in Calgary under its 2020–2021 STDP AO6 small-business contributions, for developing and testing the EPiC-lite camera system for very small wildfire detection. The programme describes non-repayable R&D contributions. It does not establish a launched satellite or current service availability.
EPiC constellation design and historical launch target (opens in a new tab)
4pi Lab · official organization profile
Wide-area thermal Earth observation and real-time alerting could contribute to remote northern situational awareness; this is a derived mapping and not a CAF deployment claim.

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EPiC satellite wildfire-detection system

What it enables

Core features

Defence and security uses

What sets it apart

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What it enables

Core features

Defence and security uses

What sets it apart

Evidence of maturity

Where this capability could contribute.

Mission areas

Arctic Domain Awareness

Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring

What still needs verification

Continue from the capability to the wider record

Organizations

Mission and ecosystem paths

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