AI Predicting Wildfires - Mastodon
AI is everywhere but the practical applications have seemed far off
Not so for the BC Wildfire Service
Last year they started piloting machine learning to forecast fire growth and relied on it heavily
My exclusive look at how they’re using it, and its limits 👇
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/buying-time-inside-the-ai-technology-trained-on-b-c-wildfires-1.6942869
Buying time: Inside the AI technology trained on B.C. wildfires
As frontline crews battled the worst wildfire season in B.C. history, a pilot project unfolded at a frantic pace at the BC Wildfire Service headquarters in Kamloops.