Battling Wildfires with Data-Driven Knowledge
The current season of relentless wildfire activity has extended into mid-December due to an acute shortage of rainfall and unforgiving Santa Ana winds. SDSC’s Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas describes a recent National Science Foundation-funded project that’s using data-driven knowledge and predictive tools to battle such blazes, which have already destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. Altintas is the PI of WIFIRE, which includes researchers from SDSC as well as the UC San Diego’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology’s (Calit2) Qualcomm Institute, and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department at the Jacobs School of Engineering. The University of Maryland’s Department of Fire Protection Engineering is also a project participant.
This video is part of a series showing how SDSC and other researchers are using advanced computing and data analytics to tackle some of the most pressing problems facing science and society as identified by the National Science Foundation.
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