In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Jessica Block, senior wildfire data scientist from the University of California - San Diego.
01:45 The 2009 Australian Black Saturday wildfire analysis
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires
#wildfire
03:10 Immersive human-sized VR cave for environmental wildfire risk assessment
#VR, #immersion, #cave
04:30 WiFire imagery analysis from San Diego County mountaintops
05:45 HPWren system expanding throughout California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada
#HPWren
06:50 Firemap wildfire behavior data model used for predictive analytics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5BqGFfelvs (Firemap tutorial narrated by Jessica Block)
08:40 Global low-resource data acquisition across sectors and specialties
09:50 International Big Pixel Initiative w NASA Worldview for urban entity identity
#NASA, #BigPixel, #Worldview
11:10 Place-specific machine learning against imagery for urban forms must include social dynamics
#machinelearning, #socialdynamics
13:10 California Gubernatorial appointment to the Wildfire Safety Advisory Board
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/about-cpuc/divisions/wildfire-safety-division/wildfire-safety-advisory-board
#wildfiresafetyadvisoryboard
14:40 Culture clash between environmental scientists, data scientists, and firefighters.
16:05 Data sources for our listeners:
https://wifire.ucsd.edu/for all things wildfire related
https://sdgeweather.com/ San Diego Gas and Electric weather awareness models
18:25 US-Mexico border air quality assessment mapping using drones tracking smoke plumes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16499147/ San Diego wildfire air quality assessment
#wildfiresmoke, #airquality