Google and FireSat Use Computers to Catch Fires
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Google is helping a new space project.
- A2
Google Research is helping a new space project.
- B1
Google Research is supporting a new satellite programme called FireSat.
- B2
Google Research is supporting the FireSat satellite programme to identify wildfires from space.
- C1
Current satellite imagery is often low-resolution or delayed by up to eleven hours.
- C2
Current satellite imagery is notoriously inadequate for early wildfire detection, often plagued by low resolution or staggering delays of up to eleven hours.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- satellite
- a machine sent into space to move around the Earth or another planet
- identify
- to recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what they are
- wildfire
- a large, destructive fire that spreads quickly over a natural area
- spot
- to see or notice someone or something, usually because you are looking hard
- orbit
- the curved path through which objects in space move around a planet or star
- network
- a large system consisting of many similar parts that are connected together
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Google. Read the original for the full report.