This week, our team began refining our current model and researching new threats to add to our services.

In class, we were able to present our timeline for this semester. The timeline was well received by our peers, and many helpful questions were asked. It was interesting to present to the whole class, as we have not done so in a while, and a few of the teams had not seen our project since the beginning of the previous semester. Having “outsider” input from those teams allowed us to view our project in a new light, and gave us some great ideas to take into the rest of the semester.

During our liaison meetings this week, we also discussed the timeline of the project and our goals for the semester. The main goal is to finish our wildfire model, which we will do by adding new databases into the current model. We will also add a smoke prediction component to the wildfire model to ensure that all potential aspects of a wildfire threat are accounted for. The other portion of the wildfire model, the drought prediction service, will be refined by adding forecast data for more accurate predictions.

The new types of threats we will be looking at include pests and diseases that affect vineyards. Pests and diseases have to have the correct weather conditions in order to thrive, so we can predict the occurrence of a pest or disease outbreak by using the same environmental conditions that we used in the previous semester.

Finally, we will be integrating our new and improved fire model into Terraview’s microservices as a predictive service for current Terraview clients. This is super exciting, as it means that our project will go out to the real world! This will likely be the most difficult part of our project, but we are up for the challenge.