Developing the US Wildland Fire Decision Support System
A new decision support tool, the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) has been developed to support risk-informed decision-making for individual fires in the United States. WFDSS accesses national weather data and forecasts, fire behavior prediction, economic assessment, smoke management as...
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| author | Erin K. Noonan-Wright Tonja S. Opperman Mark A. Finney G. Thomas Zimmerman Robert C. Seli Lisa M. Elenz David E. Calkin John R. Fiedler |
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| description | A new decision support tool, the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) has been developed to support risk-informed decision-making for individual fires in the United States. WFDSS accesses national weather data and forecasts, fire behavior prediction, economic assessment, smoke management assessment, and landscape databases to efficiently formulate and apply information to the decision making process. Risk-informed decision-making is becoming increasingly important as a means of improving fire management and offers substantial opportunities to benefit natural and community resource protection, management response effectiveness, firefighter resource use and exposure, and, possibly, suppression costs. This paper reviews the development, structure, and function of WFDSS, and how it contributes to increased flexibility and agility in decision making, leading to improved fire management program effectiveness. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f3a2b5430e214304af79b48b87f171aa2025-02-03T01:06:14ZengWileyJournal of Combustion2090-19682090-19762011-01-01201110.1155/2011/168473168473Developing the US Wildland Fire Decision Support SystemErin K. Noonan-Wright0Tonja S. Opperman1Mark A. Finney2G. Thomas Zimmerman3Robert C. Seli4Lisa M. Elenz5David E. Calkin6John R. Fiedler7Wildland Fire Management RDA, USDA Forest Service, 5765 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USAWildland Fire Management RDA, USDA Forest Service, P.O. Box 5, Gardiner, MT 59030, USAMissoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USAWildland Fire Management RDA, USDA Forest Service, 3833 South Development Avenue, Boise, ID 83705-5354, USAWildland Fire Management RDA, USDA Forest Service, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, USAWildland Fire Management RDA, USDA Forest Service, 3833 South Development Avenue, Boise, ID 83705-5354, USAMissoula Forestry Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service, 200 East Broadway, Missoula, MT 59807, USAIBM Global Services, 6300 Diagonal Highway, Boulder, CO 80301, USAA new decision support tool, the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) has been developed to support risk-informed decision-making for individual fires in the United States. WFDSS accesses national weather data and forecasts, fire behavior prediction, economic assessment, smoke management assessment, and landscape databases to efficiently formulate and apply information to the decision making process. Risk-informed decision-making is becoming increasingly important as a means of improving fire management and offers substantial opportunities to benefit natural and community resource protection, management response effectiveness, firefighter resource use and exposure, and, possibly, suppression costs. This paper reviews the development, structure, and function of WFDSS, and how it contributes to increased flexibility and agility in decision making, leading to improved fire management program effectiveness.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/168473 |
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