Mahesh-Prakash-How-Spark-Works

Mahesh Prakash: Spark is able to provide information around the rate at which the fire spreads, the direction in which it spreads, as well as the locations that the fire actually affects.

Your inputs are essentially your weather data, mainly your wind data, the location where the fire has been started, the data about vegetation, the fuel type, as well as the terrain.

And once you have all these inputs you can run your fire predictions for any given location. And it runs better than real time, so you can actually make your decisions around where to actually target the fire fighting efforts.