Employer: WIFIRE
Title: Associate Director for Operational Programs
Location: San Diego, California
Research Area: Fire Behavior and Risk Modeling, Vegetation Management Impact on Ecology and Data Management
Pathfinder Topic: Wildfire Destruction and Wildfire Suppression
- Jessica Block is the Associate Director for Operational Programs of the WIFIRE Lab at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego. Her work aims to mitigate disasters using emerging technologies including satellites, sensor networks, machine learning tools, and virtual reality. WIFIRE uses high-resolution data to help the program predict how a fire will spread in real-time. It also runs simulations for possible fire scenarios to prepare for fires before they occur.
- Jessica and the Pathfinder Initiative team co-developed a scenario-based tabletop exercise, using synthetic data from Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) ABI instrument, to contrast the differences between current and future geostationary capabilities.
Relevant Satellite Products, Data, and Tools
Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)