Using Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfire Resilience
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WIFIRE is a project funded by the National Science Foundation to develop a cyberinfrastructure for scalable data-driven wildfire monitoring, dynamic prediction, and resilience. It involves collecting and integrating data from various sources like sensor networks, satellite imagery, and weather data to help with wildfire disaster management, prediction of fire spread, and resilience planning. The cyberinfrastructure being developed aims to make large amounts of real-time sensor data useful for analysis, combine data with physical models, and connect emergency response centers with predictive and preventative capabilities.
Using Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfire Resilience
- 1. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 İlkay ALTINTAŞ, Ph.D. PI, WIFIRE San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD ialtintas@ucsd.edu Using Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfire Resilience - A Scalable Data-Driven Monitoring and Dynamic Prediction Approach - Jessica BLOCK GIS Expert, WIFIRE Qualcomm Institute, Calit2, UCSD j.block@ucsd.edu
- 2. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Good to be here!
- 3. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Fire is Part of the Natural Ecology … but requires Monitoring, PredicEon and Resilience • Wildfires are criEcal for ecology, but volaEle • Fuel load is high due to fire suppression over the last century • Changes in rainfall, wind, seasons, and thus wildfires, potenEally induced by climate change • BeMer prevenEon, predicEon and maintenance of wildfires is needed Photo of Harris Fire (2007) by former Fire Captain Bill Clayton Disaster management of (ongoing) wildfires heavily relies on understanding their DirecEon and Rate of Spread (RoS).
- 4. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 CollaboraEng efforts to increase effecEve uElizaEon of real-‐Eme data for firefighEng. • In Australia: RISER – CollecEon and uElizaEon of Emely and relevant informaEon – Emergency condiEons – PracEcal outcomes for real problems – MulEdisciplinary stakeholders • In USA: WIFIRE
- 5. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 A Scalable Data-‐Driven Monitoring, Dynamic PredicEon and Resilience Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfires (WIFIRE) Development of: “cyberinfrastructure” for “analysis of large dimensional heterogeneous real-‐Eme sensed data” for fire resilience before, during and a0er a wildfire
- 6. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 What is lacking in disaster management today is… a system integraEon of real-‐Eme sensor networks, satellite imagery, near-‐real Eme data management tools, wildfire simulaEon tools, and connecEvity to emergency command centers . …. before, during and a_er a firestorm.
- 7. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Research QuesEons • Make sensor data useful – Large dimension to levels ingesEble by analyEcal and visual plaborms • Combine real-‐Eme data with physical models – Data-‐driven predicEve and prevenEve capabiliEes • Risk assessment, training and disseminaEon using developed tools – Both municipal and firefighEng
- 8. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Data Modeling VisualizaEon Monitoring
- 9. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Data to Monitoring • Data Catalog for all data sources • Web interfaces to look at data
- 10. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Decision making for wildfire fighting and disaster management based on heterogeneous data: Photograph by Mark Thiessen Satellite data Wildfire perimeter Wind, Vegetation Terrain. Fire Data Today
- 11. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 High Performance Wireless Research and EducaEon Network Major success to bring internet to incident command in the field. Used in over 20 fires over Eme.
- 12. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Sensor Network and Monitoring Interfaces hMp://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/ >160 Meteorological Sensors and Growing
- 13. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 May 14, 2014 ¤ San Diego County Emergency Map displaying fire perimeter informaEon from NICS. EM-‐COP system is powered by NICS.
- 14. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 May 14th, 2014: 9 fires burning at once in SD! • Red Mountain Cams South (le_) "Highway” Fire SW (center rear) is the "Pointsela” Fire West (right) is the "Tomahawk” Fire May 14: More than 1.8 million HTTP request from about 9,000 individual IP addresses
- 15. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Scale Comparison Between RISER and HPWREN RISER
- 16. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Key Points -‐-‐ Data AcquisiEon and Monitoring -‐-‐ • Network is relaEvely cheap to build and deploy – Ability to customize frequency – Monitoring generally done via a simple website • Augments exisEng infrastructure • In house network specialists needed
- 17. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 VisualizaEon • VisualizaEon for data verificaEon and interpretaEon • Using high-‐end visualizaEon systems • Can run anywhere from laptop to visualizaEon cluster
- 18. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Terrain VisualizaEon • Post-‐fire burn map – SDG&E and HPWREN weather data 18
- 19. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 3D Terrain with Photos and Perimeters 19 • Terrain imagery from 2009 and 2012 • Fire perimeters from the San Diego May 2014 fires • Images were collected via TwiMer – CapEoned with tweet tag on top
- 20. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Key Points -‐-‐ VisualizaEon -‐-‐ • Ability to deep-‐dive into all informaEon based on visual context – Could be a good training and disseminaEon tool • Augments exisEng infrastructure – Should be scalable from mobile devices to laptops to high end 3D displays • Prior preparaEon and programmer Eme needed
- 21. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Modeling Dynamic Real-‐Eme Data-‐Driven
- 22. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 More accurate situaEonal awareness using data -‐-‐ Data to Modeling in WIFIRE -‐-‐ Real-‐*me remote data –> Modeling, data assimilaEon and dynamic wildfire behavior predicEon Sensors:
- 23. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 Key Points -‐-‐ Dynamic Data-‐Driven Modeling -‐-‐ • Ability to learn about the dynamics of a fire while its happening – Built upon exisEng modeling efforts using data assimilaEon • All data reduced to a few useful bits of informaEon – CollaboraEve and scalable • More data acquisiEon and further research needed
- 24. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615
- 25. WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615 To summarize: EffecEve systems for real-‐Eme acquisiEon and analysis of wildfire big data can make a huge impact on wildfire resilience. • Website: hMp://wifire.ucsd.edu • TwiMer: @WIFIREProject WIFIRE is on the web!