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Firefighter Cole Bellatti hoses a hillside behind stores in the River Village shopping center at Highway 76 and South Mission Road as the Lilac Fire burns through Bonsall in 2017. (Hayne Palmour IV/San Diego Union-Tribune)

The San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego County firefighters will count on data, detection

Tue, 09/14/2021 - 00:23 / 0 Comments

Runaway wildfires are always a possibility in the fall, when Southern California is raked by stiff Santa Ana winds that blow across the region’s ubiquitous chaparral, the most flammable mix of brush land vegetation in the country. But this fire season may bring something truly hellacious.

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Tall Timbers Research Station: Fire Modeling Leaps Forward with California Partners

Tue, 09/07/2021 - 21:00 / 0 Comments

WIFIRE is exactly the type of technology initiative that Tall Timbers and our partners have been looking for to take our fire science research and leap forward to the fire tools of the future.

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Triton Magazine: Heat of the Moment

Tue, 09/07/2021 - 21:00 / 0 Comments

The WIFIRE Lab, founded by Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is using the power of data science and supercomputing to provide officials with real-time fire models that help strategize the best approach to containment.

Colorado's East Troublesome Fire in October 2020. Photo credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

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NSF Science Matters: Wildfire and climate change: A burning issue

Fri, 09/03/2021 - 00:12 / 0 Comments

Wildfires are a nearly constant threat to lives, homes and business – an impact that cannot be diminished – but they are also a threat to ecosystems and climates.

A firefighting tanker makes a drop over the Grandview Fire near Sisters, Ore., on July 11, 2021.Oregon Fire Department

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NBC News: Using satellites and AI, space-based technology is shaping the future of firefighting

Sat, 07/24/2021 - 15:30 / 0 Comments

New programs are being developed by startups and research institutions to predict fire behavior, monitor drought and even detect fires when they first start.

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The New York Times: How Artificial Intelligence Is Fighting Wildfires

Fri, 07/16/2021 - 00:32 / 0 Comments

Thursday: A lab at the University of California, San Diego, uses data to figure out how fires will burn, and how to help prevent them.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego County firefighters will count on data, detection

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Tall Timbers Research Station: Fire Modeling Leaps Forward with California Partners

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Triton Magazine: Heat of the Moment

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NSF Science Matters: Wildfire and climate change: A burning issue

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NBC News: Using satellites and AI, space-based technology is shaping the future of firefighting

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The New York Times: How Artificial Intelligence Is Fighting Wildfires

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