450M On-Board VLM Wildfire Detection Pipeline with Sentinel-2 and LFM2.5-VL

Frontier models can't run on satellites. Here's an end-to-end wildfire detection pipeline using a 450M on-board Vision-Language Model (Sentinel-2 + LFM2.5-VL)

PauLabartaBajo shared a wildfire detection PoC using 450M LFM2.5-VL on Sentinel-2 imagery. It pairs RGB and SWIR tiles, simulates orbit with SimSat, and covers 22 fire-prone sites. The key constraint is bandwidth: on-board inference downlinks only a JSON risk profile.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the story has a counterintuitive edge-VLM hook and concrete numbers. Single-source Reddit PoC and a narrow wildfire-use case keep it below the 78+ band.