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Fighting forest fires with technology

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How Technology Can Help Predict Forest Fires

The process of forest fires is completely stochastic, meaning that it follows a random distribution. No matter how much technology we have, there will be a lot of randomness as part of the problem. We can use technology to help us understand the probabilities of forest fires from both calendar perspective and location. That can be actually quite accurate. It's going to tell you this area here has higher chances than another area there basically.

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