Descartes Labs' Wildfire Watchsystem uses satellite imagery to track active fires on Twitter

Descartes Labs, a geospatial analytics startup headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, launched the Wildfire Watch system. It's a Twitter bot that updates every six hours with two time-lapse videos -- one in full color and one in infrared -- that track the progression of wildfires across the continental U.S., highlighting their smoke plumes and heat signatures in bright red and white pixels.