ALERTCalifornia provides state-of-the-art technology that supports data-driven decisions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters.

Based at the University of California San Diego, ALERTCalifornia is a public safety program working to understand wildfires and other natural hazards and determine short and long-term impacts on people and the environment to inform management decisions.

The state-focused program manages a network of more than 1,200 monitoring cameras and sensor arrays (as of February 2026), and collects data that provides actionable, real-time information to inform public safety. In addition to the camera network, and in response to increasingly frequent and severe climate-driven disasters, ALERTCalifornia is prioritizing novel data collection and research. These data are open-source and are shared with fellow institutions and partners. 

Advanced technology offers fresh insight into the cascading disasters associated with wildfires, such as post-fire debris flows, floods, and erosion. These data will lead to a greater understanding of natural disasters and their long-term pacts on air, water, and soil quality as well as human health in California.

ALERTCalifornia’s multidisciplinary team is based at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, Qualcomm Institute, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The program also works closely with partners across the state. 

In 2023, CAL FIRE, ALERTCalifornia, and industry partner DigitalPath developed a new AI system that provides early wildfire confirmation and actionable real-time data to quickly scale fire resources, helps evacuations through enhanced situational awareness, and monitors fire behavior. In its first season, the AI platform was utilized in all 21 CAL FIRE Dispatch Centers and detected over 1,200 fires across California, beating 911 call reporting over 30% of the time. It is especially effective in spotting anomalies in remote locations and is proven effective at night. The AI tool was recognized by TIME as one of the top innovations of 2023. 

ALERTCalifornia now works with federal, state, and local agencies to ensure emergency managers have access to our camera network, the AI, and the latest technology that provides them with real-time data to inform response. 

In 2025, ALERTCalifornia worked with Esri to release a novel map layer that allows emergency managers and the public to incorporate live camera views into their maps, enhancing situational awareness and preparedness before, during, and after natural disasters. Soon after ALERTCalifornia was awarded a Special Achievement in GIS award from Esri for innovation in the field of GIS software and technology, geospatial analytics, and mapping. 

ALERTCalifornia continues to be a leader in the field of natural disaster research and response. Learn more about current research on our technology page and stay up to date with our latest announcements. 

ALERTCalifornia is the third generation of UC San Diego’s High Performance Research & Education Network (HPWREN). Learn more about our history here.

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ALERTCalifornia

The APP-FPP (Advanced Profile Prediction for Fusion Pilot Plant Design) project is a multi-institutional scientific collaboration—led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and involving partners like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics—designed to deliver accelerated simulation frameworks for whole-device plasma profile prediction.

Core Goals and Functions

• Bridging Research to Industry: Connects decades of basic plasma turbulence and transport research with commercial fusion developer needs under the U.S. Bold Decadal Vision.

• Whole-Device Modeling: Predicts temperature, density, and current profiles across the entire plasma volume—from the core out to the complex edge and scrape-off layer.

• Target Machines: Evaluates future and operating concepts including DIII-D, ITER, SPARC, and commercial tokamak and stellarator pilot plants.

Key Technical Approaches

• Accelerated Simulation Frameworks: Integrates high-speed codes (such as the edge turbulence code GENE-X) to speed up plasma edge and core simulations by orders of magnitude.

• AI and Machine Learning Surrogates: Uses machine learning acceleration, adaptive turbulence seeding, and time-telescoping techniques to find steady-state profiles efficiently.

• Optimizing Design Trade-offs: Quantifies heat-flux limits, impurity tolerances, actuator requirements, and fusion gain (Q) to help private partners minimize capital costs and size.

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APP-FPP (MIT)

Led by Pratt Institute, AquaSteady, a seaweed-based water absorbent, is solving the water scarcity challenge by helping the nation’s farmers retain moisture in soil between irregular rainfalls and irrigations. AquaSteady absorbs water from soil when it is wet and gradually returns it when the soil dries. It can be formed into an anti-erosion net or other shapes.

https://www.aquasteady.com/

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AquaSteady

The Blanket Collaborative on Test Facilities (BCTF) is a major research program led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Backed by the U.S. Department of Energy's FIRE (Fusion Innovation Research Engine) initiative, its mission is to design, test, and build the physical infrastructure needed to test fusion reactor "blankets" before commercial power plants are built.

The Challenge: Why Do We Need It?

A fusion blanket lines the inside of a reactor and serves two critical, punishing roles:

1. Power Extraction: It absorbs the intense heat from the fusion plasma to generate electricity.

2. Fuel Breeding: It uses lithium-based fluids (liquid metals or molten salts) to breed tritium, the scarce hydrogen isotope needed to fuel the reactor.

Currently, there is no facility in the world capable of testing these extreme components in a single, integrated environment that simulates real reactor conditions.

Core Focus Areas

To close these engineering gaps, the BCTF focuses on four main technical challenges:

• Fluid Flow & Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD): When electrically conductive liquid metals or molten salts flow through a reactor's intense magnetic fields, it creates massive electromagnetic drag (MHD effects). BCTF models how this alters pressure, heat transfer, and fluid behavior.

• Helium Cooling: Testing high-pressure helium gas loops to see how efficiently they can pull heat out of the blanket.

• Corrosion & Material Compatibility: Evaluating how aggressive hot molten salts and liquid metals chemically degrade the structural walls over time.

• Tritium Extraction: Developing prototype systems (partnering with Idaho National Laboratory) to safely capture and extract the bred tritium fuel so it can be recycled back into the plasma.

Key Projects Under BCTF

Rather than just doing math on computers, BCTF is building real-world testing infrastructure at ORNL:
• HASTE (Helium and Salt Technology Experiment): A new physical test stand designed to replicate the temperatures, pressures, and magnetic fields of a fusion blanket to study helium and molten salt flows.

• UNITY-3 Facility: A public-private partnership with Kyoto Fusioneering to build a premier breeding blanket test facility hosted at ORNL to simulate prototypic nuclear fusion environments.

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BCTF (ORNL)

BurnPro3D is designed for use in fire mitigation by land managers and burn bosses to prioritize land for treatment, and plan and conduct prescribed burns. The platform is powered by the next generation WIFIRE Data and Model Commons. It provides diverse users a common ground for understanding risks and tradeoffs related to prescribed burns through detailed models of vegetation and fire behavior.

BurnPro3D uses a coupled fire/atmosphere model to capture the interaction between user-defined complex ignition patterns and environmental conditions. With support from the National Science Foundation, the BurnPro3D team is developing emerging AI techniques to transform the characterization of the fire environment, including dynamic site-specific three-dimensional fuels and winds.

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BurnPro3D

Preventing wildfires in the State Responsibility Area (SRA) is a vital part of CAL FIRE’s mission. While these efforts have occurred since the early days of the Department, CAL FIRE has adapted to the evolving destructive wildfires and succeeded in significantly increasing its efforts in fire prevention. The Department's Fire Prevention Program consists of multiple activities including wildland pre-fire engineering, vegetation management, fire planning, education and law enforcement. Typical fire prevention projects include brush clearance, prescribed fire, defensible space inspections, emergency evacuation planning, fire prevention education, fire hazard severity mapping, and fire-related law enforcement activities.

CAL FIRE’s mission emphasizes the management and protection of California’s natural resources; a goal that is accomplished through ongoing assessment and study of the State's natural resources and an extensive CAL FIRE Resource Management Program. CAL FIRE oversees enforcement of California’s forest practice regulations, which guide timber harvesting on private lands. Reviews and inspections ensure protection of watershed and wildlife, as well as renewal of timber resources. Department foresters and fire personnel work closely to encourage and implement fuels management projects to reduce the threat of uncontrolled wildfires. CAL FIRE Foresters promote conservation and the importance of our trees and forests to Californians of all ages.

CAL FIRE manages 14 Demonstration State Forests that provide for commercial timber production, public recreation, and research and demonstration of good forest management practices. Additional forestry programs include urban forestry, archaeology, pest management, etc.

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The National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) is a private law entity dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture, whose main task is to administer the forestry policy of Chile and promote the development of the sector.

The Corporation is led by an executive director, currently Aída Baldini Urrutia, and has the mission to: Guarantee the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of the country's forest and xerophytic ecosystems, through actions aimed at conservation, ecosystem management, monitoring and reforestation, to meet the current and future demand for ecosystem goods and services in a climate crisis scenario, contributing to the territorial development of indigenous peoples, vulnerable communities, the valuation of biodiversity and the gender perspective.

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CONAF (Chile)

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) is responsible for the coordination of overall state agency response to disasters. Assuring the state's readiness to respond to, recover from all hazards and assisting local governments in their emergency preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation.

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Cal OES

The California Forest Observatory is a data-driven forest monitoring system that maps the drivers of wildfire behavior across the state-including vegetation fuels, weather, topography & infrastructure-from space. https://the.forestobservatory.com/

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California Forest Observatory

Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions and pressing societal challenges.

The Institute manages JPL for NASA, sending probes to explore the planets of our solar system and quantify changes on our home planet. Caltech also owns and operates large-scale research facilities such as the Seismological Laboratory and a global network of astronomical observatories, including the Palomar and W. M. Keck Observatories; and cofounded and comanages LIGO.

Caltech is an independent, privately supported institution with a 124-acre campus located in Pasadena, California.

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California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

The California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force — which hosts the California Wildfire and Landscape Interagency Treatment Dashboard — is a state-federal collaborative effort that brings together more than a dozen agencies (federal, state, and private) to coordinate and report wildfire-resilience and landscape-management projects across California. The Dashboard offers an interactive, publicly accessible map of treatments — from forest thinning and prescribed burns to tree planting and grazing — allowing users to sort projects by region, county, land ownership, and more

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California Interagency Treatment Tracking System

The California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) is a program managed by the California Department of Water Resources in cooperation with the University of California, Davis. Established in 1982, it provides free, high-quality weather and evapotranspiration data to help farmers, turf managers, and the public maximize water-use efficiency.

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California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS)

California Landscape Metrics (CLM) is a statewide, interagency-developed geospatial data initiative that consolidates and standardizes key landscape-scale metrics across California. The project brings together data from four former regional “Regional Resource Kits” into a unified suite of mapped data layers designed to support forest and landscape resilience. CLM was developed by a collaboration of scientists from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), CAL FIRE’s Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP), the Climate and Wildfire Institute (CWI), and researchers at several universities such as University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Irvine, among others. The data layers cover a broad range of landscape attributes — from wildfire hazard and fuel loads to habitat suitability, vegetation structure, carbon storage, hydrology, and social-ecological metrics. They are intended to enable land managers, planners, and decision-makers to assess current conditions, plan treatments or restoration actions, and monitor changes over time in order to advance landscape-scale resilience to fire, climate change, and other disturbances.

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California Landscape Metrics

California’s economy depends on the infrastructure the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and utilities provide. For almost 100 years, the CPUC has worked to protect consumers and ensure the provision of safe, reliable utility service and infrastructure at reasonable rates, with a commitment to environmental enhancement and a healthy California economy.

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California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)

The Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC) is a public organization of the Government of Catalonia that manages official geographic, cartographic, and geological information.

Mission and Overview

• Founding & History: Formed in January 2014 by merging previous regional bodies (with roots dating back to the early 20th-century Institute of Cartography and Geological Institute).

• Core Role: Exercise authority over geodesy, cartography, and spatial data infrastructure while carrying out land, soil, and subsoil research.

• Location: Headquartered at Passeig de Santa Madrona 45, Sants-Montjuïc, Barcelona.

Key Functions and Services

• Mapping & GIS: Produces official topographic and geological maps of Catalonia (such as the 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 geological series) via platforms like the VISSIR map viewer.

• Monitoring: Operates regional seismic monitoring networks and tracks natural hazards such as avalanches in the Pyrenees.

• Cartoteca de Catalunya: Houses an extensive collection of historical and modern global cartographic materials, photographs, and documents.

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Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia

The Asháninka Central of the Ene River (CARE) is an Indigenous Political Organization (IPO) that represents 45 Ashanink communities in the Ene River basin. Our territory covers the districts of Río Tambo, Mazamari and Pangoa, in the province of Satipo, department of Junín.
 
For 30 years, we have worked with an unwavering commitment to strengthening territorial governance, promoting sustainable development and upholding the collective rights of our communities. Currently, CARE is not affiliated with any regional or national indigenous organization, developing its activities autonomously and independently. This condition reaffirms our commitment to self-determination, the legitimate representation of our communities and the organizational strengthening of the Ashanink people of the Ene River.

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Central Asháninka del Río Ene (CARE)

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County has a rich history that spans from its agricultural roots to its current position as a global hub of innovation and technology.

With a multitude of natural amenities, 300 days of sunshine a year, strong economic vitality, and one of the highest standards of living in the country, the region attracts people from all over the world and has long been considered one of the best places to live and work in the United States.

Santa Clara County’s population of over 1.9 million is the largest in Northern California, one of the largest in the nation, and is among California’s most heterogeneous communities, rich in ethnic and cultural diversity. Today, Santa Clara County is a major employment powerhouse for the region, providing more than a quarter of all jobs in the Bay Area. Santa Clara County is home to numerous high-tech companies like Google, Apple, Adobe, Zoom, Cisco Systems, Nvidia, and Intel.
 
Santa Clara County is made up of people from diverse cultures, nationalities, and racial groups. Over 100 languages and dialects are spoken. A large percentage of the county population was born outside of the United States. The county has a large Asian and Latino population, representing approximately 40% and 25% of the county population, respectively, with many immigrants from countries around the world settling in the area.

The County of Santa Clara is also one of the largest employers within Santa Clara County, with over 24,000 employees.

The County’s workforce closely approximates the ethnic diversity of our community. The County workforce is also widely distributed across age groups, and women represent a majority of the County’s workforce. This provides the County with diverse perspectives and allows for better representation across different groups, strengthening our service delivery.

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County of Santa Clara

Led by George Mason University, the CropSmart digital twin provides on-demand, decision-ready solutions optimized to users’ cropping goals. The technology will be available to users through both web portals and smartphone apps. The optimal solutions are derived from near-real time remote observations of cropping systems with physics and AI or machine learning-based modeling and simulations.

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CropSmart

CubiCasa is a floor plan technology company providing tools for creating digital floor plans from property scans.

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CubiCasa Oy

The DIII-D National Fusion Facility supports research using the largest operating tokamak in North America. It provides access to experimental, diagnostic, simulation, and related research data generated through collaborations across the fusion science community.  Digital assets include experimental measurements, diagnostic data, operational data, simulation results, software, workflows, and related resources generated through DIII-D fusion research.

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DIII-D

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Data Insight

Deepfire is a satellite based wildfire detection and monitoring startup. https://deepfire.co

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DeepFire

 Dendra is a platform used to retrieve, store, manage, and curate environmental data from sensor networks.

Dendra facilitates the efficient research and monitoring of our environment through real-time sensor network management, data cleaning and exploration. We support the needs of small research groups, large state agencies, and public accessors. Whether data was logged a minute ago or decades prior, if it has a timestamp, Dendra can retrieve it and graph it.

Like a dendritic network gathering signals, Dendra enables environmental monitors to pull data from the Earth's surface to a single location — all to form a unified understanding of our rapidly changing environment through the free exchange of knowledge. 

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Dendra

The Department of Homeland Security has a vital mission: to secure the nation from the many threats we face. This requires the hard work of more than 260,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector. Our duties are wide-ranging, and our goal is clear - keeping America safe.

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Earth Fire Alliance is a global nonprofit coalition building the technological infrastructure needed to detect, monitor, and understand Earth’s wildfires.

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Earth Fire Alliance

The Earth Science and Observation Center (ESOC) at CIRES is a research center dedicated to the understanding of the Earth System, primarily – but not exclusively - through the use of remote sensing techniques.    

Since the 1980s, the importance of understanding the Earth as a system has become widely recognized, and remote sensing, both from air and space, has been a fundamental tool for this purpose. By providing observations of individual and integrated processes at the appropriate scales, with the appropriate perspective, and in the appropriate context to enable the study of the various components of the Earth system and their interactions, remote sensing has provided some of the greatest advances in Earth system science.

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Earth Science and Observation Center (ESOC), University of Colorado, Boulder

EarthDaily Analytics Corporation provides end-to-end geospatial solutions for governments and enterprises, including daily satellite data, AI-ready data processing, and analytical products and services.

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EarthDaily Analytics Corporation

EarthScope Consortium is a consortium dedicated to supporting transformative global geophysical research and education. We are a global community of hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of scientists, scholars, and educators. Our goal is to advance human understanding of the Earth and its physical systems by democratizing access to geophysical observations and practices.

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EarthScope Consortium

Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping.

Since 1969, we have supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what we call The Science of Where.

We take a geographic approach to problem-solving, brought to life by modern, enterprise-grade GIS technology. We are committed to using science and technology to build a sustainable world.

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Esri

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) set up in 1998 a research group to work specifically on the development and implementation of advanced methods for the evaluation of forest fire danger and mapping of burnt areas at the European scale. Also in 1998, a first meeting of the "Forest Fire Experts Group" of the Member States took place. This group was established by DG ENV and JRC to advice on the development of the foreseen methods for fire assessment.

These activities led to the development of the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) which became operational in 2000.

EFFIS has been continuously expanding, sustained by the research work done at the JRC and supported by other European Commission services (DG ENV, DG ECHO, DG GROW) and the European Countries. Since the year 2015, EFFIS is part of the EU Copernicus Program, under the Emergency Management Service (EMS).   

EFFIS was created through cooperative effort of the countries and the EC Services, and is open to all European countries. Further, an agreement with FAO Silva-Mediterranea was reached to extend the system to all non-EU Mediterranean countries. Along the time the original modules of fire danger forecast and damage assessment have been enhanced, and additional modules have been developed.

Here is a summary of key technical facts on EFFIS during last years.

* In 2003 the rapid damage assessment was introduced to provide quasi-real time maps of burned areas in southern Europe.
* In 2004 the EFFIS fire database was established and since then the number of participating countries has been continuously increasing.
* In 2005 the web map viewer has been thoroughly renewed, introducing new functionalities and the query tools.
* An interface called "current situation" was set-up in 2007 to complement the standard mapping interface during the fire season with additional real-time information such as hot spots maps or news from the internet press. Also in 2007 a unified fire danger assessment method was adopted in EFFIS and fire danger forecasts were extended to 6 days and later on to 10 days, in 2014.
* In 2008 new products providing maps of fire danger anomalies and absolute ranking based on the fire danger index adopted have been introduced.

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European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)

EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment from space.

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European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

The European Space Agency (ESA) is an international organization dedicated to space exploration and integrating European space programs such as satellite development.

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European Space Agency (ESA)

The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) is a multi-agency, interdisciplinary collaborative effort to identify and collect critical measurements of fuels, fire behavior, fire energy, meteorology, smoke, and fire effects that will be used to evaluate and advance operational-used fire and smoke models. 
https://www.fasmee.net/

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FASMEE

Integrates multi-scale experimental devices (FLARE, WHAM, MAGNES) with CFD, neutronic, and plasma physics modeling to develop advanced blanket technologies, reduced-order models, and systems engineering frameworks for fusion reactors.

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FORWARD (UW-Madison)

The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), a University of California San Diego partnership project led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, supports Internet-data applications in the research, education, and public safety realms.


HPWREN functions as a collaborative, Internet-connected cyberinfrastructure. The project supports a high-bandwidth wireless backbone and access data network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties in areas that are typically not well-served by other technologies to reach the Internet. This includes backbone locations, typically sited on mountain tops, to connect often hard-to-reach areas in the remote Southern California back country.

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HPWREN

HydroFrame is a platform to facilitate easy interaction with large computationally intensive hydrologic models and massive simulated outputs. HydroFrame's tools enable users to subset model inputs and outputs for any watershed in the US and to develop their own models.

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HydroFrame

Hydrosat is a tech company that provides thermal infrared data and analytics to help governments, companies, and partners monitor resources, detect change, and act earlier.

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Hydrosat

NASA and IBM have teamed up to create an AI Foundation Model for Earth Observations, using large-scale satellite and remote sensing data, including the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) data. By embracing the principles of open AI and open science, both organizations are actively contributing to the global mission of promoting knowledge sharing and accelerating innovations in addressing critical environmental challenges. With Hugging Face's platform, they simplify geospatial model training and deployment, making it accessible for open science users, startups, and enterprises on multi-cloud AI platforms like watsonx. Additionally, Hugging Face enables easy sharing of the pipelines of the model family, which our team calls [Prithvi](https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-100M), within the community, fostering global collaboration and engagement. More details on Prithvi can be found in the joint IBM NASA [technical paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18660).

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IBM NASA Geospatial

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Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

Founded in 2012, the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington brings together biologists, computer scientists, and other innovators. Our community of faculty, staff, translational investigators, and trainees works across disciplines to develop new technologies and create useful molecules. From breakthrough AI models to the world’s first computationally designed vaccine, our impact extends far beyond our labs.

We’re always seeking new trainees and collaborators — please reach out if you’d like to work with us.

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Institute for Protein Design

The mission of the LiDAR monitoring program is to develop efficient methods for monitoring our natural and cultural resources and to provide effective decision-support tools for land managers. This project is a collaborative effort developed with partners from USDA Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Universities and the New Mexico Consortium. This multidisciplinary team seeks to integrate LiDAR and modeling techniques to monitor fuels and ecosystems and link fire modeling for land management decision support. The ultimate goal is to standardize monitoring across agencies with uniform language, methods and data analysis. 

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IntELiMon: Interagency LiDAR Monitoring & Research Applications

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Internal Revenue Service

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Iron Horse Vineyards

The Hive is the University of Utah's research data repository provided by both the J. Willard Marriott Library and Eccles Health Sciences Library. It is designed to broadly disseminate the intellectual contributions in research and creativity produced by the University's faculty, staff and students to ensure its longevity

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J. Willard Marriott Library

Our History

Jackson State University has a distinguished history, rich in the tradition of educating young men and women for leadership, having undergone seven name changes as it grew and developed. Founded as Natchez Seminary in 1877 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the school was established as Natchez, Mississippi “for the moral, religious and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states.” In November 1882, the school was moved to Jackson; in March 1899, the curriculum was expanded and the name was changed to Jackson College.

The state assumed support of the college in 1940, assigning to it the mission of training teachers.  Subsequently, between 1953 and 1956, the curriculum was expanded to include a graduate program and bachelor’s programs in the arts and sciences; the name was then changed to Jackson State College in 1956. Further expansion of the curriculum and a notable building program preceded the elevation of Jackson State College to university status on March 15, 1974. In 1979, Jackson State was officially designated the Urban University of the State of Mississippi. Presently, Jackson State University, a public, coeducational institution, is recognized as an R2 “Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity” institution based on the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.” It is supported by legislative appropriations supplemented by student fees and federal and private grants.

Our Vision

Building on its historic mission of empowering diverse students to become leaders, Jackson State University will become recognized as a challenging, yet nurturing, state-of-the-art technologically-infused intellectual community. Students and faculty will engage in creative research, participate in interdisciplinary and multi-institutional/ organizational collaborative learning teams and serve the global community.

Our Mission

The mission of Jackson State University, an HBCU and comprehensive urban research university, is to provide quality teaching, research and service at the baccalaureate, masters, specialist, and doctoral levels to diverse populations of students and communities using various modalities to ensure that they are technologically-advanced, ethical, global leaders who think critically and can address societal problems and compete effectively. 

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Jackson State University (JSU)

The Meteorological Satellite Center of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and is responsible for operating geostationary meteorological satellites and imaging instruments.

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Japan Meterological Agency (JMA)

The Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) is the national meteorological service of South Korea. 

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Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA)

LANDFIRE (LF), Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, providing landscape scale geo-spatial products to support cross-boundary planning, management, and operations.

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LANDFIRE

Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) primary mission is to provide scientific and engineering support to national security programs. LANL performs R&D, design, maintenance, and testing in support of the nuclear weapons stockpile. LANL also performs theoretical and applied R&D in such areas as materials science, physics, environmental science, energy, and health.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

The University of California recently awarded $6 million to a multicampus research grant, in partnership with UC-managed national laboratories, to advance Low-Energy, AI-Informed Phase Transitions (LEAP). The goals of LEAP are to accelerate research into more efficient AI — with help from AI. Using a mix of theory, real-world data and simulations, we will train a large language model AI designed to simulate the effectiveness of topological materials for computing. By narrowing the field of materials that will be tested in the lab, this AI could speed up the discovery of new chip materials that switch faster and use less energy. The kickoff meeting for this research grant was held on August 6th 2025 and was hosted by the Eddleman Quantum Institute at UC Santa Barbara.

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Low-Energy, AI-Informed Phase Transitions (LEAP)

MIDRC is an open-access platform launched in 2020 to build a repository of medical images and clinical data, initially focused on COVID‑19, to support AI research in medical imaging.

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Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center

You can check live weather reports and forecasts via the Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya/Meteorological Service of Catalonia (Meteocat), the official public weather service for Catalonia.

About Meteocat
 
• Role: It is an independent public-law entity of the Catalan government, created under the 2001 Meteorology Law.
 
• Services: Provides general weather predictions, municipal forecasts, marine/mountain forecasts, and radar maps (via the XRAD network).
 
• Hazard Alerts: Issues Hazard Weather Situations (SMP) county warnings scaled by severity levels.
 
• Mobile App: Offers a free Meteocat App for iOS and Android featuring radar layers, push alerts, and 3-day hourly forecasts.

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Meteorological Service of Catalonia (Meteocat)

Mitigating Risks from Abrupt Confinement Loss  Utilizes high-performance computing (HPC) simulations to assess the thermal loads and electromechanical risks associated with abrupt plasma confinement loss, enabling mitigation strategies for robust, licensable fusion pilot plants.

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MiRACL (PPPL)

Microsoft creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

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Microsoft

The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data within 3 hours of satellite observation from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard S-NPP and NOAA 20 (formally known as JPSS-1).

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NASA FIRMS

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NDP Endpoints

NOAA's Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) enables operational weather forecasters to produce the best forecasts using state-of-the-art technology that incorporates the latest science. Global Systems Laboratory has five divisions that focus on advanced technologies, decision support services, model development, innovative data assimilation and verification techniques, and high-performance computing and architectures.

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NOAA Global Systems Laboratory

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) hosts and provides public access to one of the most significant archives for environmental data on Earth. It provides over 37 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data.

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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

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NOAA-demo

From the earliest days of exploration, to the first steps on the Moon and the missions shaping our future, NASA represents the spirit of discovery that defines our nation. As the United States approaches its semiquincentennial, Freedom 250 highlights how innovation, courage, and scientific leadership have carried America forward — and how NASA continues to expand the frontier for the next generation.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) GeoHub site provides a place for users to search, discover, and visualize NAIP imagery. 
 
The NAIP imagery program acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the United States.  A primary goal of the NAIP program is to make digital ortho photography available to governmental agencies and the public within a year of acquisition.

NAIP is administered through the USDA's Farm Production and Conservation Business Center (FPAC-BC) Geospatial Enterprise Operations (GEO) Branch.  This "leaf-on" imagery is used as a base layer for GIS programs in the Farm Service Agency's County Service Centers, and is used to maintain the Common Land Unit (CLU) boundaries.

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National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)

NCSES is one of thirteen principal federal statistical agencies and serves as the nation’s leading provider of objective data on the U.S. science and engineering enterprise, including surveys and key reports such as Science and Engineering Indicators and Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.

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National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), located in Boise, Idaho, is the nation's support center for wildland firefighting. Eight different agencies and organizations are part of NIFC. Decisions are made using the interagency cooperation concept because NIFC has no single director or manager.

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National Interagency Fire Center

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a United States scientific and regulatory agency tasked with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species. 

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NSMC is an operational unit of MCA meteorological satellite programs.

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National Satellite Meteorological Center of the Chinese Meteorological Administration

NWS Mission

Provide weather, water and climate data, forecasts, warnings, and impact-based decision support services for the protection of life and property and enhancement of the national economy.

NWS Vision

A Weather-Ready Nation: Society is prepared for and responds to weather, water, and climate-dependent events.

NWS Transformation

The National Weather Service is transforming to better protect and serve communities by focusing on the people of NWS, improvements to infrastructure, and advancing the agency to meet the future.

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National Weather Station (NWS)

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Not Affiliated

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OBO Foundry

ODIN-fire stands for "Open Data Integration framework for wildland fire mitigation". We are an open source software project that is aimed at creating information systems to combat natural disasters and our initial focus is on improving situational awareness in the context of wildfires.

ODIN-fire supports creating servers that import a wide range of geospatial data such as weather, fuel and fire sensor reports in near realtime and visualize this data on a 3D virtual globe in a browser. ODIN-fire is not a website. It is a library to create task- and location specific web applications. ODIN-fire servers can run in the cloud, on stakeholder premises or even out in the field.

ODIN-fire is open sourced under Apache v2 license and available on github. The code is written in Rust and Javascript. ODIN-fire has been under development since 2022. 

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ODIN-fire Project

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ORNL DAAC was established in 1993 and is under an interagency agreement between NASA and the Department of Energy. ORNL DAAC specializes on data and information relevant to terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecology, and environmental processes, which are critical to understanding the dynamics of Earth's biological, geological, and chemical components.

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