UC San Diego Creates Software to Help Fight Wildfires Around California
WIFIRE, based at UC San Diego, is a small part of a large partnership fighting fires across the state.
PODCAST: The Buzz with ACT-IAC Fighting Fires with AI with Dr. Ilkay Altintas
Year after year, the United States experiences larger, more frequent, and more destructive wildfires as a result of a changing global climate.
Researchers develop new modeling tools for prescribed fire
Much of what is known about planned fire comes from a burn manager’s memory. “It takes years to get that kind of experience, If things are changing, like invasive species or climate, or if you’re a new manager, you need help.”
Firefighters relying on artificial intelligence to fight California wildfires - ABC News
Scientists are using supercomputing and artificial intelligence to figure out the best way to fight the growing threat of wildfires in California.
USC co-leading AI project to stop massive wildfires - Spectrum News 1
Images of raging wildfires have become commonplace in California. According to fire experts, it is no longer a question of if there will be a massive forest fire but when and where it will ignite.
The San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego County firefighters will count on data, detection
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.
