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Wildfire Intelligence Platform — NIST PULSE Accelerator (Early Concept)
3 minutes (2022): A concept draft, created and narrated by John Blackwell, developed during the NIST PULSE Accelerator, outlining the wildfire problem space and exploring how spatial mapping, digital twins, and integrated sensing technologies could improve detection, coordination, and response outcomes.
NIST-Funded VALOR (Year One) — Public Safety Simulation Environment
30 Minutes (2019): Presented by John Blackwell at the NIST Public Safety Communications Research Conference. This talk outlinines the first year of the Virtual and Augmented Laboratory for Objective Realities (VALOR), a warehouse-scale immersive simulation environment developed to support firefighter training and next-generation first responder technologies.
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