California's Wildfires and the AlertSoCal System
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Scripps Institution's Neal Driscoll provides an inside look at the AlertSoCal system, developed in collaboration with the Scripps-based High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) and the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, which expands Southern California’s state-of-the-art earthquake and weather monitoring system to better detect fires in real time before they spread. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Show ID: 33256]
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