Forest Roads and Operational Wildfire Response Planning
| Autor: | Benjamin M. Gannon, Matthew P. Thompson, Michael D. Caggiano |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Decision support system
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Control (management) 01 natural sciences risk management Fire control Forest road Predictor variable Risk management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences 040101 forestry Transportation planning business.industry Environmental resource management Forestry 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences lcsh:QK900-989 suppression transportation planning Geography machine learning Analytics lcsh:Plant ecology 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries hazardous fuels business wildland fire |
| Zdroj: | Forests, Vol 12, Iss 110, p 110 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1999-4907 |
| Popis: | Supporting wildfire management activities is frequently identified as a benefit of forest roads. As such, there is a growing body of research into forest road planning, construction, and maintenance to improve fire surveillance, prevention, access, and control operations. Of interest here is how road networks directly support fire control operations, and how managers incorporate that information into pre-season assessment and planning. In this communication we briefly review and illustrate how forest roads relate to recent advances in operationally focused wildfire decision support. We focus on two interrelated products used on the National Forest System and adjacent lands throughout the western USA: potential wildland fire operational delineations (PODs) and potential control locations (PCLs). We use real-world examples from the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado, USA to contextualize these concepts and illustrate how fire analytics and local fire managers both identified roads as primary control features. Specifically, distance to road was identified as the most important predictor variable in the PCL boosted regression model, and 82% of manager-identified POD boundaries aligned with roads. Lastly, we discuss recommendations for future research, emphasizing roles for enhanced decision support and empirical analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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