Jessica Block - Wildfire Data from the University of California - San Diego

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

https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2019/09/02/virtual-reality-cave-offers-three-dimensional-expe

#VR, #immersion, #cave

04:30 WiFire imagery analysis from San Diego County mountaintops

https://wifire.ucsd.edu/

05:45 HPWren system expanding throughout California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada

https://hpwren.ucsd.edu/

#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

https://bigpixel.ucsd.edu/

#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