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Evaluating the Socioeconomic Impacts of Rapid Assembly and Deployment of Geospatial Data in Wildfire Emergency Response Planning: A Case Study Using the NASA RECOVER Decision Support System (DSS)
- Source :
- International Journal of Wildland Fire. 27(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2018.
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Abstract
- Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land management agencies to devote increasingly larger portions of their budget to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes increasingly critical to response and rehabilitation efforts. The NASA Rehabilitation Capability Convergence for Ecosystem Recovery (RECOVER) post-fire decision support system is a server-based application designed to rapidly provide land managers with the information needed to develop a comprehensive rehabilitation plan. This study tested the efficacy of RECOVER through structured interviews with land managers (n=15) who used RECOVER and were responsible for post-fire rehabilitation efforts on over 645 000 ha of fire-affected lands. Although the benefit of better-informed decisions is difficult to quantify, the results of this study illustrate RECOVER’s decision support capabilities provided information to land managers that either validated or altered their decisions on post-fire treatments estimated at over $1.2 million (USD) and saved nearly 800 hours of staff time by streamlining data collection as well as communication with local stakeholders and partnering agencies.
- Subjects :
- Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Administration And Management
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14485516 and 10498001
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- NASA Technical Reports
- Journal :
- International Journal of Wildland Fire
- Notes :
- SCMD-EarthScienceSystem_929099
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsnas.20190032594
- Document Type :
- Report
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18010