UC San Diego’s WIFIRE Project Helps Firefighters Get a Jump on Wildfires

Researchers across UC San Diego are collaborating on a new project called WIFIRE to help firefighters get a jump on fast-moving wildfires. The project merges satellite imagery and real-time data from sensors in the field with computational techniques such as visualization and modeling to predict where and how fast a wildfire will spread. Participants include researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and the department of mechanical engineering.

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very good use of BIG Data and good technology

[@SteveFarrand]

Great use of BIG data and information technology.

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It is why we need focus in development process Big Data and try to work in better precision ... Great Job from Team of San Diego University!

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coursera brought me here

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Didnt Australia had that kind of Technology? and see what had happened to them.

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There are unpredicatable but crucial factors such as wind speed, direction, and strength that could shift in a moment, and so forward deployed firefighters to where the data "predicts" the fire will be might be roasted alive. I am not sure I would bet lives on these analytics.

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Well, its better to place a bet on Math, Statistics and Machine Learning of Big Data Analytics, rather than place a bet on nothing (or unpredictable factors).