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
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.
WIFIRE: A Scalable Data-Driven Monitoring, Dynamic Prediction and Resilience Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfires
The University of California at San Diego is awarded a grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure, called WIFIRE, for real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction and visualization of wildfire behavior.
UC San Diego, UMD Researchers to Build ‘WIFIRE’ Cyberinfrastructure – UC San Diego Today
Three research organizations at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time data-driven assessment, simulation, prediction, and visualization of wildfire behavior.
UC San Diego Recieves NSF Support for Wildfire Modeling and Prevention – East County Magazine
Wildfires are increasing in both absolute number and severity in the American southwest and this trend is predicted to continue over decades to come. Wildfire prevention has now become a major priority, and scientists at the University of California, San Diego have received federal funding to devise descriptive and predictive simulation tools to help prevent or suppress wildfires.