 Imagery | Platforms | Hardware | Misc. Decision Support The project is engineered to provide the USFS with the information and systems to improve decisions making when fire emergencies occur. There are many elements to making sound decisions on the deployment of assets for managing wildfires. Generally, two main types of information are needed: strategic information, and tactical information. Strategic information refers to data on what assets are available (eg. fire fighters, air tankers), or forest inventory data such as stocking or time since last fire. Such information is gathered well before a fire but must be quickly and efficiently garnered and distributed to control wildfire. Tactical information is that information that pertains to a fire in progress, such as the location of the fire line, the radiative intensity of the fire, weather information, and fuel condition. This is perhaps the most challenging type of data to collect as the information can change rapidly through a fires progression and can be very spatially complex. Nevertheless, tactical information must be efficiently fused with strategic information to model fire progress, predict which fires most threaten human lives and property, and understand what tools are available. More information result in a higher confidence in decisions, and a higher probability of success for decision support systems. |
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