Fighting Wildfires with Big Data

What if there were a better way to monitor, predict, and fight wildfires

WIFIRE http://wifire.ucsd.edu/ , created by the University of California at San Diego and University of Maryland, crunches satellite data and real-time remote sensor data to forecast the rate at which wildfires might spread.

Elena Malykhina

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