Towards Data-Driven Operational Wildfire Spread Modeling: A Report of the NSF-Funded WIFIRE Workshop

The National Science Foundation via Award #1331615 as part of the Interdisciplinary Research in Hazards and Disasters (Hazards SEES) program.

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