Environmental Observing Systems

Professor de Callafon helps build cyber-infrastructure to aid wildfire hazard assessment and response – MAE News

Professor de Callafon helps build cyber-infrastructure to aid wildfire hazard assessment and response – MAE News

The system will integrate networked observations such as heterogeneous satellite data and real-time remote sensor data, with computational techniques in signal processing, visualization, modeling, and data assimilation to provide a scalable method to monitor such phenomena as weather patterns that can help predict a wildfire's rate of spread.
UC San Diego Achieves a Hat Trick with 2014 HPCwire Awards – JSOE News

UC San Diego Achieves a Hat Trick with 2014 HPCwire Awards – JSOE News

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has achieved a hat trick in garnering three awards for its university-wide WIFIRE project as part of the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards presented at the 2014 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14), in New Orleans, Louisiana.