Orbit – Wildfire Detection Website

Orbit is a design concept by Nova Digital Studio for a fictional wildfire-detection platform. Autonomous drones live in solar-powered docks across a forest region, fly patrol loops at dawn, dusk, and after lightning, find heat with thermal cameras, and send confirmed alerts with exact coordinates to fire crews.

The brief was to make a site that feels like a real product, calm enough for forestry agencies and power utilities.

The landscape becomes the console. Instead of sending the camera on a journey, the site stays in one place and changes what that place means.

You start above a forested valley at dusk, seen like a film shot. As you scroll, the camera tilts to look straight down and a thermal scan line sweeps across the valley. Behind the line, the landscape turns into the product’s live map: contour lines, drone docks, patrol routes, and console panels docking around the edges.

Then one alert plays out step by step with the scroll:

Patrolling at 21:40.

A hotspot at 61 °C on Ridge 4.

The nearest drone leaves its loop to confirm, with a live thermal feed.

Coordinates go to the crew.

The drone stays until the ground is cold.

Scroll back up and every step plays in reverse, all the way to the dusk valley.

A map viewable as terrain, thermal, or fire risk.

The dock and drone, with concept specs.

Use cases for forestry agencies, utilities, and landowners.

The alert as it arrives in a crew’s tools: a text message, a dispatch-desk row, and an API event.

A closing view of the valley at night, with every dock lit and patrol loop glowing.

On phones, the story stays the same: the map sits on top and the console becomes a bottom sheet with tabs.

Every panel, status card, and alert uses live, readable text rather than a static image. One shader draws both the landscape and the map, making the scan line a true transition instead of a crossfade.

We generated the photography for the project to match the site’s dusk palette.

Built with React, TypeScript, Three.js (React Three Fiber), custom GLSL shaders, and GSAP ScrollTrigger. Hosted on Vercel. Nova Digital Studio planned, art-directed, and reviewed it across recorded desktop and phone review rounds.