The flare likelihood and region eruption forecasting (FLARECAST) project: flare forecasting in the big data & machine learning era
The European Union funded the FLARECAST project, that ran from January 2015 until February 2018.FLARECAST had a research-to-operations (R2O) focus, and accordingly introduced several innovations into the discipline of solar flare forecasting.FLARECAST innovations were: first, the treatment of hundreds of physical properties viewed as promising flar