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Re:Wildfire forecast from your mobile device by pedrombafonso on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @02:00PM (#7265408)
Only three parameters for such a simulation? Does this make sense?
Re:Wildfire forecast from your mobile device by fjsousa on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @02:01PM (#7265413)
The model has lots of parameters, but you can only fiddle with three of them. Terrain and vegetation data is provided to the model by a database in a webservice. This is a function of the geographic location.