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UNM Computer Science Department Colloquium Series
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020
2:00-2:50 PM

Join via Zoom:
https://unm.zoom.us/j/98715707842
Meeting ID: 987 1570 7842
Passcode: 9620277

Speaker:
Kasra “Kaz” Manavi, PhD
Director of Research and Communications, Simtable

Title:
Realtime.Earth: Collective Intelligence from Distributed Imagery for Wildland Fire

Abstract:
We are currently fighting “blind” on wildland fire incidents. Fire location and behavior intelligence is crucial during the initial phase of an incident, but reports of wildfire can be delayed for hours. To make matters worse, changes in fuel loads and forest composition along with increasing fire season lengths are resulting in larger and more intense fires. With recent events like the Tubbs, Atlas and Camp Fires, more and more catastrophic wildland fire events are causing significant structure damage and considerable numbers of lives are being lost. Real-time data streams relevant to wildland fire are diversifying e.g. increased activity on social media and publicly accessible imagery. With the increase in these streams, more and more sources of relevant imagery are becoming available during an incident. We suggest the fusion of these data outlets coupled with streaming camera feeds directly from mobile phone browsers can provide real-time situation awareness during the critical first hours of an incident. In this talk we discuss observations obtained using Realtime.Earth, a web-based platform for real-time collective intelligence enabled by imagery capture and collection, data distribution and model visualization, all in the browser. We discuss how imagery captured on mobile devices from citizens, crews and social media can be fused together into live 3D models for real-time fire behavior monitoring.

Bio:
Kasra “Kaz” Manavi is the Director of Research and Communications at Simtable. He received a M.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University with an emphasis on robotic motion planning and received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico with a focus on computational structural biology. After graduation, he started working at Simtable LLC in Santa Fe, NM, where he has been working on developing a web-based platform to enable real-time collective intelligence by providing users the ability to seamlessly incorporate agent-based modeling, ambient computing, photogrammetry, geospatial information systems and distributed computation into solutions that helps users better understand complex environmental and social phenomena in their community, primarily in the wildland fire space.


Shuang (Sean) Luan, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair, Computer Science
Director, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program
University of New Mexico

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