Tag: Machine Learning
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Colorado scientists use AI for improved wildfire forecasts
A new technique developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) uses artificial intelligence to efficiently update the vegetation maps used by wildfire computer models to more accurately predict fire behavior and spread. “One of our main challenges in wildfire modeling has been to get accurate input, including fuel data,” NCAR scientist and lead…
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NOAA administrator: Everyone is an end user for space
Everyone on Earth “is an end user for space,” the top official with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday during a panel discussion at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Richard Spinrad, who took over the agency that includes the National Weather Service and eight other related services, said anyone who gets weather warnings…
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Space Symposium: Amazon unit finds space ripe for startups
Startups have moved beyond traditional technology hotbeds on the East and West coasts and into space with a big boost from the world’s largest provider of cloud computing services. Companies providing services ranging from warning small satellite operators of possible collisions that could hobble or destroy their satellites to building autonomous robotic vehicles for use…