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title: "Sensors, Machine learning, and Artificial intelligence in Real Time Fire Science: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "five-year program funded by the NSF and lead by Montana universities in order to better understand prescribed fires and their effects on the community of the state"
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sensors-machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence-in-real-time-fire-science
type: Organization
wikidata: Q125328783
website: https://www.mtnsfepscor.org/projects/smart-fires
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# Sensors, Machine learning, and Artificial intelligence in Real Time Fire Science

> five-year program funded by the NSF and lead by Montana universities in order to better understand prescribed fires and their effects on the community of the state

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Founded: 2023-01-01
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.mtnsfepscor.org/projects/smart-fires
- Also known as: SMART FireS

## Key people

- Robert A. Walker, director (professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University)
- Lu Hu, director (researcher)
- Michelle Terwilliger, director (Engineer and project manager and administrator of the University of Montana's EPSCOR grant, as well as SMART FireS at Montana State.)
- Todd Kipfer, director (Associate project associate of Montana State's SMART FireS project)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Sensors, Machine learning, and Artificial intelligence in Real Time Fire Science, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sensors-machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence-in-real-time-fire-science#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125328783, read 2026-11-11

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