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San Jose partners highlight satellite, AI and modeling tools for real‑time wildfire risk mapping
Summary
San Jose State University, CAL FIRE and nonprofit partners described modeling, remote sensing, FIRIS aircraft data and emerging AI tools that city staff say they will integrate to better target vegetation work and enforcement.
Presenters at a San Jose study session described an expanding toolkit of technologies — from high‑performance fire models and RAWS weather stations to infrared aircraft systems and private satellite and AI vendors — that can help the city detect fire conditions and prioritize prevention work.
Dr. Greg Clements, director of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center at San Jose State University, described numerical fire‑modeling capability hosted at SJSU and explained that "fire weather is defined as hot, dry, and windy, and we get those days all through the summer." He…
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