iFire: AI Immersive Visualisation to Enhance Fire Training Sensemaking
Published in AFAC24 Conference and Exhibition, 2024
The frequency of extreme wildfire events has increased in the past few years, causing large-scale damage. Increasing our understanding of the factors contributing to wildfire scale and magnitude is critical, especially for the fire response personnel. Pre-exposure to the dynamism of wildfire behaviour, or immersive sensemaking, is necessary to gain enough situational awareness to handle the risks of confronting them, leading to improved decision-making under high-risk, high-pressure conditions. We present the iFire Project, a full-body, AI-powered, immersive geo-visualisation system to improve firefighter understanding. The different modules of iFire combine to provide an augmented comprehension of wildfires.
Recommended citation: Carlos A. Tirado Cortes, Dennis del Favero, Greg Penney, Richard J. Hurley, Yang Song, Frank Wu, and Michael J. Ostwald. 2024. iFire: AI Immersive Visualisation to Enhance Fire Training Sensemaking. In AFAC 2024, September 3-5, 2024, Sydney, Australia. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30153.76641
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