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> during the summer months and daylight hours.

That's one advantage of a statellite: it's always looking.

Also, I suspect the UAVs would be more expensive than one might expect, once you factor in the manpower necessary to operate them (pilots and maintainence).

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I would imagine that forest fires are less likely to be started in the winters and at night, unless they're caused by humans i.e. campfires.

I agree re:winters, but am not sure about nights. I imagine nighttime storms are not infrequent and so you could get a reasonable number of lightning strikes at night, causing fires.

Though, the UVA—satellite tradeoff also requires thinking about how soon you want to see a fire after it's been started. E.g., is 12 hours acceptable?