Science AMA Series: We’re team Wildfire AWARE, finalists of the NASA
Europa Challenge and winners of the RCUK Entrepeneurship award. We built
an app that can predict wildfires up to a week in advance and we’re here
to talk about our experience, AMA!
Abstract
Hi! We’re a group of Computer Scientists and Mathematicians working on
an application to predict wildfires using machine learning and data
analysis! We worked on the application part-time for 2 months, we were
invited to Finland for the NASA Europa Challenge finals and we also won
the Research Council UK’s Smart Cities Entrepeneurship Prize! Currently,
we’re working with Greenpeace Russia to expand our application to
several high risk areas in Russia, Brazil and Indonesia to hopefully
help them prevent wildfires and save lives! We’re here to talk about our
experience, answer any questions people might have and talk about what
we plan on doing going forward. Questions will be answered by team
members Vishal Soomaney, Peter Jupp and Flinn Dolman, we will be back at
10 am ET to answer your questions, AMA! You can check us out at:
http://wildfireaware.co.uk/app/ Proof:
https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/news-events/news/news2017/nasa-europa-challenge/
edit: We really enjoyed answering everyone’s questions! If anyone has
any more questions, ideas or feedback, you can get in contact with us at
[email protected] . You can also watch us nervously talk about our
app during the NASA Europa Challenge Finals here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNlA6yVuTYw A big thanks to the
r/science mods for helping us arrange this AMA!