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Using Drones to Improve Wildfire Response

GeoAcuity Mike Bonillas
Consider what firefighters and other response teams had to contend with in last summer’s devastating North Complex Fire and the CZU August Lightning Complex Fires in northern California: intense heat, smoke, wind, falling trees and power lines, and the complications of working in socially distant ways due to COVID-19 protocols. These are not exactly ideal…
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Kailei Lin

Kailei Lin
Kailei Lin earned her Master of Science degree in Spatial Data Science in 2020 at the University of Southern California, a joint degree offered by the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Data Science Program. Prior to joining the Spatial Data Science program, she completed her bachelor’s degree in…
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Will Forker

Will Forker
On slower days in my high school years, I found myself dropping a Google Street View pin at a random location around the world and exploring endlessly, trying to immerse myself in the fabric of a place that I may never even visit. My experiences exploring the world through this medium in addition to visiting…
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More LA County residents are hungry during the pandemic

As the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic started to kick in earlier this spring, researchers with the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) and the Keck School of Medicine of USC began tracking indications of food insecurity in Los Angeles County -- what happens when someone doesn't have enough money for food. Under the leadership…
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