using cyberinfrastructure for wildfire resilience
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WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615
İlkay ALTINTAŞ, Ph.D. PI, WIFIRE San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD [email protected]
Using Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfire Resilience
- A Scalable Data-Driven Monitoring and Dynamic Prediction Approach -
Jessica BLOCK GIS Expert, WIFIRE Qualcomm Institute, Calit2, UCSD [email protected]
WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615
Good to be here!
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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).
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Data Modeling VisualizaEon Monitoring
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Data to
Monitoring
• Data Catalog for all data sources
• Web interfaces to look at data
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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
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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.
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Sensor Network and Monitoring Interfaces
hMp://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/ >160 Meteorological Sensors and Growing
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May 14, 2014
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San Diego County Emergency Map displaying fire perimeter informaEon from NICS.
EM-‐COP system is powered by NICS.
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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
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Scale Comparison Between RISER and HPWREN
RISER
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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
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VisualizaEon • VisualizaEon for data verificaEon and interpretaEon • Using high-‐end visualizaEon systems • Can run anywhere from laptop to visualizaEon cluster
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Terrain VisualizaEon • Post-‐fire burn map
– SDG&E and HPWREN weather data
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3D Terrain with Photos and Perimeters
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• 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
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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
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Modeling Dynamic Real-‐Eme Data-‐Driven
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More accurate situaEonal awareness using data -‐-‐ Data to Modeling in WIFIRE -‐-‐
Real-‐*me remote data –> Modeling, data assimilaEon and dynamic wildfire behavior predicEon
Sensors:
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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
WIFIRE is funded by NSF 1331615
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
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