Firefighters get high tech to douse wildfires – PBS News
University of California San Diego computer scientists stitch together information from weather sensors and satellite images to predict where wildfires are moving in real time. All of the images and data is fed into a supercomputer and creates a network of real-time wildfire information. Their cyber infrastructure system, called WIFIRE, analyzes the information to forecast where the fire will move
Every Datum Tells a Story: The dawning of the age of meta-information – City Journal
computer and software experts gather at conferences to talk about how big and unprecedented the numbers are, how the concept of “big data” changes everything.
WIFIRE project helps firefighters get a jump on wildfires – UC News
Now, thanks to a multi-year, $2.65 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of California San Diego, and the University of Maryland have been building a cyberinfrastructure to better monitor, predict, and mitigate wildfires in the future.