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Summary
GAIA is an advanced, integrated management system designed to revolutionize forest-fire prevention, extinction, and reforestation by providing real-time situational awareness across woodland environments. Selected as a beneficiary of the TransMisiones 2023 initiative—coordinated by the CDTI and the State Research Agency (AEI)—GAIA runs through December 2026 under a framework of strategic national funding. By deploying advanced sensor arrays on firefighting equipment and intelligent control systems, GAIA accelerates threat detection and supports effective decision-making during high-risk events.
Overview
GAIA (Gestión Avanzada e Inteligente de Alertas) unifies data collection, processing, and command-and-control functionalities into a single software platform for forest-fire management. It replaces siloed legacy tools with a cohesive backbone that continuously monitors vegetation health, weather conditions, and human activity to detect fire risks as they emerge.
Goals & Scope
The primary goal of GAIA is to enhance real-time understanding of forest environments by integrating context-aware intelligence and hazard-level assessment modules. It supports strategic firefighting operations through automated alerts, resource coordination dashboards, and post-event reforestation planning.
Key Technologies
GAIA leverages Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors embedded in firefighting vehicles and drones to collect high-resolution environmental data, which is streamed via secure networks to centralized analytics engines. Its control layer employs machine-learning algorithms for anomaly detection and predictive modelling, enabling teams to anticipate fire behavior before ignition points spread.
Benefits & Impact
By delivering sub-minute fire-hazard assessments, GAIA reduces detection-to-response times by more than 50 %, minimizing damage to ecosystems and nearby communities. It also facilitates coordinated reforestation efforts post-event, using geospatial insights to prioritize rehabilitation zones and monitor regrowth.
GTD’s Role
GTD Defense & Security spearheads the design, implementation, and validation of GAIA’s core software modules—ranging from data-ingestion pipelines to frontline decision-support interfaces. We maintain Agile development processes and automated CI/CD workflows to ensure that new capabilities are rapidly tested, approved, and deployed to field teams.
This project is made up of a consortium of companies and entities formed by: CIC Consulting Informático, Tekniker, Celestia TST, Universidad de Cantabria, Gogoa Mobility Robots, CAETEC, FECSA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos & Zenon. More information here.
PROOF OF THE DISSEMINATION AND PUBLICITY OF THE AID
The beneficiaries of the aid must comply with the obligations regarding communication, publicity and information, in accordance with the terms of the applicable Resolution of the call for applications and the Order on the regulatory bases. These obligations include the publication of the grant of the aid on the beneficiary's website, mentioning the phrase ‘Subsidised by the CDTI’ and incorporating the logos of the CDTI and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and the creation of a microsite detailing the public objectives of the project and the members of the consortium. This information must be available up to five years after the final certification of the project.
