This webinar was presented by Stacy Drury on Oct 27, 2009. For more information, visit the Alaska Fire Science Consortium website at http://akfireconsortium.uaf.edu.
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez, IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, April 16th, 2020
Presented by Oswaldo Carrillo from CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Diagnostic of how the submitted FREL could be improved to better align with ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Centre for International Forestry Research: Landscapes and food systems CIFOR-ICRAF
The document summarizes a presentation by Terry Sunderland from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) about CIFOR's work on landscapes and food systems. CIFOR conducts research on how forests, trees, and agriculture interact at the landscape scale. Key points include: CIFOR uses a landscape approach to understand complex land use systems; it has projects analyzing the link between tree cover and nutrition using national health survey data; and it aims to better integrate agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management through approaches like agroforestry and landscape management.
Presented by Syaiful Anwar, Directorate Climate Change Control, MoEF, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, April 13th, 2020
The document describes work done in Task 4.4 to optimize acoustic measurement protocols and develop prediction models for characterizing wood quality using stress wave tests, with the goals of determining two quality indices: an index (SW#1) relating stress wave velocity to overall log quality, and an index (SW#2) relating free vibration frequency to external log quality. Sensors were integrated with a forest harvester to measure stress waves and vibrations, and algorithms were developed to compute the quality indices from the acoustic data.
This document summarizes the final meeting of the WP2 Slope Project in Brussels on February 1, 2017. It discusses the completion of deliverables, data collection from various partners, tree classification and detection methods, estimation of environmental parameters, combining data sets from different sources, logistics modeling, and analytics. The meeting highlights that the project has proven the concept of combining data from remote sensing, UAVs, and TLS to map up to 1,000 hectares in a single flight and provide useful data for both harvesting and long-term forest management - providing a solution beyond the state of the art.
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez, IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, April 16th, 2020
Presented by Oswaldo Carrillo from CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Diagnostic of how the submitted FREL could be improved to better align with ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Centre for International Forestry Research: Landscapes and food systems CIFOR-ICRAF
The document summarizes a presentation by Terry Sunderland from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) about CIFOR's work on landscapes and food systems. CIFOR conducts research on how forests, trees, and agriculture interact at the landscape scale. Key points include: CIFOR uses a landscape approach to understand complex land use systems; it has projects analyzing the link between tree cover and nutrition using national health survey data; and it aims to better integrate agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management through approaches like agroforestry and landscape management.
Presented by Syaiful Anwar, Directorate Climate Change Control, MoEF, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, April 13th, 2020
The document describes work done in Task 4.4 to optimize acoustic measurement protocols and develop prediction models for characterizing wood quality using stress wave tests, with the goals of determining two quality indices: an index (SW#1) relating stress wave velocity to overall log quality, and an index (SW#2) relating free vibration frequency to external log quality. Sensors were integrated with a forest harvester to measure stress waves and vibrations, and algorithms were developed to compute the quality indices from the acoustic data.
This document summarizes the final meeting of the WP2 Slope Project in Brussels on February 1, 2017. It discusses the completion of deliverables, data collection from various partners, tree classification and detection methods, estimation of environmental parameters, combining data sets from different sources, logistics modeling, and analytics. The meeting highlights that the project has proven the concept of combining data from remote sensing, UAVs, and TLS to map up to 1,000 hectares in a single flight and provide useful data for both harvesting and long-term forest management - providing a solution beyond the state of the art.
Diesel engines are the workhorse of the transportation industry. Focus on improving diesel-engine performance is therefore key to addressing regulatory objectives of reducing fuel consumption and global warming gases. This applications note provides instructions for performing 3-D diesel-engine combustion simulations with advanced spray models and accurate detailed chemistry. The simulation uses advanced chemistry solution algorithms that include dynamic adaptive chemistry (DAC) and dynamic cell clustering (DCC). The simulation employs a multi-component diesel-fuel surrogate mechanism with 437 species that was reduced for the conditions of interest from a comprehensive and well validated master mechanism. The results show prediction of ignition behavior for low-temperature combustion conditions, which provides good agreement with measured pressure and heat-release profiles. The results also demonstrate some advantages of using a multi-component surrogate to capture vaporization stratification within the engine cylinder.
Using Automatic Reactor Networks With CFD To Provide Optimal Accuracy While L...Reaction Design
CFD simulation does an adequate job of predicting temperature globally, so it served well to solve the NOx problems of the past 20 years. However, the combustion challenges that designers need to simulate today are kinetically driven and require detailed chemical simulation. This simulation has been accomplished for over 30 years through the use of idealized chemical reactor modeling using chemistry simulation software packages such as CHEMKIN®. But these packages have always lacked the ability to directly take into account effects of the complex 3-D flow field and geometry. Building ENERGICO networks to represent the local chemical reactions in appropriate regions of the geometry is a proven method of incorporating the effects of both the flow and the kinetics in a single simulation.
Conventional and advanced engine designs depend upon effective use of spray to control the distribution of the liquid fuel for greatest benefit. Sprays in diesel engines control ignition, power and emissions. It is important that the spray models used in 3-D simulation for sprays have the ability to accurately predict liquid breakup, droplet formation, distribution and evaporation.
This application note provides instructions for performing 3-D diesel-engine spray combustion
simulations with advanced spray models and accurate detailed chemistry. The simulation employs a multi-component diesel-fuel surrogate mechanism with 437 species that was reduced for the conditions of interest from a comprehensive and well validated master mechanism. The results show prediction of
spray penetration for low-temperature combustion conditions. The results also demonstrate some advantages of using a multi-component surrogate to capture vaporization stratification within the engine cylinder.
Recent Advances in Fuel Chemistry Permit Novel Design ApproachesReaction Design
Today’s combustion equipment market poses significant challenges with the rapidly changing fuels landscape, stricter emissions regulations and tight economic constraints. In the first paper of this series, we discussed how Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) alone is not providing the combustion simulation value required in today’s business environment because of CFD’s inherent limitations in handling complex combustion chemistry. In this paper, we will describe how the simulation of real fuel behavior has been achieved through recent advances in our understanding of detailed combustion chemistry and pollutant emissions formation.
HCCI Engine Performance Evaluation Using FORTEReaction Design
This note describes how the FORTÉ Simulation Package can be used to include detailed chemistry in internal combustion engine simulations. The enhanced chemistry solution techniques in FORTÉ allow detailed chemistry to be efficiently included in the FORTÉ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation. These enhancements allow designers to accurately predict ignition, emissions, combustion duration, and engine performance without sacrificing geometric fidelity and without compromising accuracy for solution efficiency.
Nationwide Fire Extinguishers offers a wide range of fire safety signs that comply with health and safety regulations, including fire extinguisher ID signs, fire equipment signs, fire exit signs, fire door signs, and prohibition and warning signs made of aluminum. The document provides information on these various fire safety sign types and invites the reader to contact Nationwide Fire Extinguishers for their fire safety sign needs.
The document proposes deriving green metrics for software by systematically mapping sustainability assets, direct effects, green factors, and an entity-attribute-measure taxonomy. It presents sustainability assets like people, infrastructure, processes, and products that influence direct effects like power waste, effort waste, and material waste. Green factors that impact direct effects are then identified. Finally, example green metrics are defined using the entity-attribute-measure structure and mapped to green factors to allow monitoring of software sustainability performance. The metrics provide a starting point to help organizations deploy and control sustainability-related processes.
RFP: Agricultural Data Flow Gap AnalysisSara Kroopf
This request for proposals aims to streamline agricultural data collection for carbon credit generation by analyzing how well farm data systems map to nitrous oxide credit calculation models. Consultants will identify the top 5-10 software tools collecting nitrogen application data and compare their data formats and parameters to credit model requirements. Deliverables include a list of top software and a gap analysis of data sources versus model input needs. The goal is to facilitate increased farmer participation in carbon markets by improving connections between data collection platforms and credit quantification methodologies.
Propagating Data Policies - A User StudyEnrico Daga
The document summarizes a user study conducted to evaluate a system that propagates data policies in data flows. 10 participant teams were given 5 data journeys involving real datasets and processes to determine what policies should propagate from input to output. The teams used a tool to understand the journeys and compare their decisions to the system. An accuracy analysis was conducted on the results and teams provided feedback through a questionnaire.
This document outlines an assignment for an environmental impact report (EIR) review. Students are asked to select an EIR that is available for public review and that was published no later than 2009. They should review the project description and environmental analysis in the EIR. Using provided questions, students should evaluate impact assessment methodologies, mitigation strategies, and cumulative impacts discussed in the EIR. Students must then write a 5 page paper summarizing their review and evaluation of the selected EIR, including their opinion on the EIR's usefulness for informing decision makers.
Overview of the world of geospatial metadata, and the role of the EDINA service GoGeo in creating, saving, and discovering it. Presented on 19 June 2014 by Tony Mathys in Aberdeen, Scotland.
2004-07-28 Fast Aerosol Sensing Tools for Natural Event Tracking FASTNETRudolf Husar
The document describes the FASTNET project, which aims to develop tools to better characterize natural haze conditions. The project focuses on detailed analysis of major natural aerosol events like forest fires and dust storms from 2000-2004. It involves developing tools for real-time data access, archiving, and analysis to track and document current and historical natural aerosol events. This will help quantify the impact of natural sources on haze levels to inform air quality regulations and modeling.
FAO National Forest Assessment Project in VietnamFAO
The document summarizes the objectives and output of an FAO mission to discuss Vietnam's National Forest Assessment project. The mission aims to initiate and develop the inventory design, map information sources, and consult stakeholders. The output will be a report with an analysis of national forest inventories, data needs, and a proposal to further develop the inventory methodology. The document also outlines some challenges, such as complex forest classifications, stratification needs, and capacity to use new technologies like remote sensing. It provides recommendations on inventory parameters, redesigning the field sampling, taking advantage of remote sensing, and capacity building.
The document describes Component A of the Carbon Benefits Project which aims to develop a standardized methodology and protocol for measuring, monitoring, and reporting the carbon benefits of land management projects.
Component A is led by Colorado State University and involves multiple partners developing the protocol and testing it using existing projects. The protocol will provide guidance to projects on assessing carbon stocks, greenhouse gas fluxes, and economic impacts in a standardized way. It will incorporate existing carbon modeling tools and involve capacity building activities.
The document discusses standard operating procedures (SOPs), pre-incident planning, and size-up. It emphasizes the importance of SOPs in outlining fireground operations and their relationship to pre-incident plans and size-up. Pre-incident plans provide specific building information that can be rapidly evaluated during size-up to develop an initial incident action plan. Size-up is an ongoing process that considers SOPs, pre-incident plans, and developing incident conditions.
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
This document discusses different strategies for modeling greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stocks, including empirical and process-based models. Empirical models rely on statistical relationships between activity data and emission factors, like those used in IPCC Tiers 1 and 2. Process-based models attempt to simulate underlying biogeochemical processes. Examples of common process models described are DAYCENT, DNDC, and RothC. The document outlines steps to find an appropriate process model, set it up, calibrate it using measurement data, and evaluate its performance through statistical tests. Challenges include limited data for model validation and parameterization for tropical conditions.
Presented by Ian Hanou at the Trees, People, and Built Environment 3 Conference, Birmingham, England, April 2017. Geospatial mapping and analysis of the urban forest including tree inventories and Urban Tree Canopy (UTC) assessments have become commonplace tools in North America. Cities and environmental nonprofits use inventories to improve management and maintenance, and use UTC to develop a citywide benchmark, monitor change, inform master plans, and prioritize planting efforts to maximize benefits where they are lacking in the community. As a natural progression with recent GIS and mobile technology innovations, inventories and UTC data have been incorporated into online mapping programs to increase access to this information and ease-of-use for non-technical users.
Through a series of short case studies, this paper highlights some of the benefits, considerations, and impacts of bringing urban forestry data and prioritization tools into online mapping applications. Evidence suggests that such tools may increase awareness of the urban forest as an asset and a resource for community development, public health goals, and scenario planning. The collaboration that is created during an inclusive process to develop and implement such tools is discussed along with the role of tree professionals and nonprofits in UTC targets, followed by recommendations for practitioners.
Available Software Tools for Land Use GHG Inventories and Project Carbon Bala...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
This document discusses several existing software tools that can be used for land use greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and project carbon balance verification:
- COMET-VR is a web-based decision support tool that provides rapid assessments of GHG impacts from land use and management scenarios.
- ALU (Agriculture and Land Use) is a national GHG inventory software that supports reporting to the UNFCCC and guides users through the inventory process using IPCC methods.
- GEFSOC is a system for regional/national assessments of soil carbon dynamics that can address a variety of issues at large scales with flexibility. It links with other data and models.
Friday Forum: Updating Canada’s Fire Danger Rating System (August 7, 2020)glennmcgillivray
The document discusses updating Canada's Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS). The CFFDRS includes several components like the Fire Weather Index system and Fire Behavior Prediction system. It is used to assess fire danger and predict fire behavior based on weather, fuels, and topography. The summary discusses modernizing the CFFDRS to incorporate new data sources and address changing wildfire challenges. It also outlines proposed changes to various CFFDRS components and models to improve their accuracy while maintaining simplicity.
SRR Indicator Review and Revision Results Summary Draft Final 6-16-10James Bernard
This document summarizes the results of a workshop convened by the Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable to review and revise indicators for measuring the sustainability of rangelands. The workshop participants reviewed 64 existing indicators, proposed revisions to indicator names for clarity and measurability, and developed a matrix cataloging available data sources for each indicator. They found that fully measuring the indicators would require collecting data from over 200 separate measurements. The revised indicators were improved to directly measure ecosystem goods, services and core processes provided by rangelands.
Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing Higher Tiers in the National GHG...ipcc-media
- Developing a national GHG inventory requires integrating data from different sources using methods that rely on data, assumptions, and models. Higher tier methods (Tier 3) use spatially-explicit models to track emissions at the unit level and better capture variations, estimate carbon flows between pools, and project emission scenarios.
- Indonesia has developed the Indonesian National Carbon Accounting System (INCAS) as a Tier 3 integrating tool to produce detailed annual estimates of emissions and removals to support policy and meet reporting needs. The system uses land cover change data and biophysical models within a transparent framework to facilitate verification.
- Higher tiers provide more accurate estimates and ability to analyze management impacts but require consideration of reporting needs
Diesel engines are the workhorse of the transportation industry. Focus on improving diesel-engine performance is therefore key to addressing regulatory objectives of reducing fuel consumption and global warming gases. This applications note provides instructions for performing 3-D diesel-engine combustion simulations with advanced spray models and accurate detailed chemistry. The simulation uses advanced chemistry solution algorithms that include dynamic adaptive chemistry (DAC) and dynamic cell clustering (DCC). The simulation employs a multi-component diesel-fuel surrogate mechanism with 437 species that was reduced for the conditions of interest from a comprehensive and well validated master mechanism. The results show prediction of ignition behavior for low-temperature combustion conditions, which provides good agreement with measured pressure and heat-release profiles. The results also demonstrate some advantages of using a multi-component surrogate to capture vaporization stratification within the engine cylinder.
Using Automatic Reactor Networks With CFD To Provide Optimal Accuracy While L...Reaction Design
CFD simulation does an adequate job of predicting temperature globally, so it served well to solve the NOx problems of the past 20 years. However, the combustion challenges that designers need to simulate today are kinetically driven and require detailed chemical simulation. This simulation has been accomplished for over 30 years through the use of idealized chemical reactor modeling using chemistry simulation software packages such as CHEMKIN®. But these packages have always lacked the ability to directly take into account effects of the complex 3-D flow field and geometry. Building ENERGICO networks to represent the local chemical reactions in appropriate regions of the geometry is a proven method of incorporating the effects of both the flow and the kinetics in a single simulation.
Conventional and advanced engine designs depend upon effective use of spray to control the distribution of the liquid fuel for greatest benefit. Sprays in diesel engines control ignition, power and emissions. It is important that the spray models used in 3-D simulation for sprays have the ability to accurately predict liquid breakup, droplet formation, distribution and evaporation.
This application note provides instructions for performing 3-D diesel-engine spray combustion
simulations with advanced spray models and accurate detailed chemistry. The simulation employs a multi-component diesel-fuel surrogate mechanism with 437 species that was reduced for the conditions of interest from a comprehensive and well validated master mechanism. The results show prediction of
spray penetration for low-temperature combustion conditions. The results also demonstrate some advantages of using a multi-component surrogate to capture vaporization stratification within the engine cylinder.
Recent Advances in Fuel Chemistry Permit Novel Design ApproachesReaction Design
Today’s combustion equipment market poses significant challenges with the rapidly changing fuels landscape, stricter emissions regulations and tight economic constraints. In the first paper of this series, we discussed how Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) alone is not providing the combustion simulation value required in today’s business environment because of CFD’s inherent limitations in handling complex combustion chemistry. In this paper, we will describe how the simulation of real fuel behavior has been achieved through recent advances in our understanding of detailed combustion chemistry and pollutant emissions formation.
HCCI Engine Performance Evaluation Using FORTEReaction Design
This note describes how the FORTÉ Simulation Package can be used to include detailed chemistry in internal combustion engine simulations. The enhanced chemistry solution techniques in FORTÉ allow detailed chemistry to be efficiently included in the FORTÉ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation. These enhancements allow designers to accurately predict ignition, emissions, combustion duration, and engine performance without sacrificing geometric fidelity and without compromising accuracy for solution efficiency.
Nationwide Fire Extinguishers offers a wide range of fire safety signs that comply with health and safety regulations, including fire extinguisher ID signs, fire equipment signs, fire exit signs, fire door signs, and prohibition and warning signs made of aluminum. The document provides information on these various fire safety sign types and invites the reader to contact Nationwide Fire Extinguishers for their fire safety sign needs.
The document proposes deriving green metrics for software by systematically mapping sustainability assets, direct effects, green factors, and an entity-attribute-measure taxonomy. It presents sustainability assets like people, infrastructure, processes, and products that influence direct effects like power waste, effort waste, and material waste. Green factors that impact direct effects are then identified. Finally, example green metrics are defined using the entity-attribute-measure structure and mapped to green factors to allow monitoring of software sustainability performance. The metrics provide a starting point to help organizations deploy and control sustainability-related processes.
RFP: Agricultural Data Flow Gap AnalysisSara Kroopf
This request for proposals aims to streamline agricultural data collection for carbon credit generation by analyzing how well farm data systems map to nitrous oxide credit calculation models. Consultants will identify the top 5-10 software tools collecting nitrogen application data and compare their data formats and parameters to credit model requirements. Deliverables include a list of top software and a gap analysis of data sources versus model input needs. The goal is to facilitate increased farmer participation in carbon markets by improving connections between data collection platforms and credit quantification methodologies.
Propagating Data Policies - A User StudyEnrico Daga
The document summarizes a user study conducted to evaluate a system that propagates data policies in data flows. 10 participant teams were given 5 data journeys involving real datasets and processes to determine what policies should propagate from input to output. The teams used a tool to understand the journeys and compare their decisions to the system. An accuracy analysis was conducted on the results and teams provided feedback through a questionnaire.
This document outlines an assignment for an environmental impact report (EIR) review. Students are asked to select an EIR that is available for public review and that was published no later than 2009. They should review the project description and environmental analysis in the EIR. Using provided questions, students should evaluate impact assessment methodologies, mitigation strategies, and cumulative impacts discussed in the EIR. Students must then write a 5 page paper summarizing their review and evaluation of the selected EIR, including their opinion on the EIR's usefulness for informing decision makers.
Overview of the world of geospatial metadata, and the role of the EDINA service GoGeo in creating, saving, and discovering it. Presented on 19 June 2014 by Tony Mathys in Aberdeen, Scotland.
2004-07-28 Fast Aerosol Sensing Tools for Natural Event Tracking FASTNETRudolf Husar
The document describes the FASTNET project, which aims to develop tools to better characterize natural haze conditions. The project focuses on detailed analysis of major natural aerosol events like forest fires and dust storms from 2000-2004. It involves developing tools for real-time data access, archiving, and analysis to track and document current and historical natural aerosol events. This will help quantify the impact of natural sources on haze levels to inform air quality regulations and modeling.
FAO National Forest Assessment Project in VietnamFAO
The document summarizes the objectives and output of an FAO mission to discuss Vietnam's National Forest Assessment project. The mission aims to initiate and develop the inventory design, map information sources, and consult stakeholders. The output will be a report with an analysis of national forest inventories, data needs, and a proposal to further develop the inventory methodology. The document also outlines some challenges, such as complex forest classifications, stratification needs, and capacity to use new technologies like remote sensing. It provides recommendations on inventory parameters, redesigning the field sampling, taking advantage of remote sensing, and capacity building.
The document describes Component A of the Carbon Benefits Project which aims to develop a standardized methodology and protocol for measuring, monitoring, and reporting the carbon benefits of land management projects.
Component A is led by Colorado State University and involves multiple partners developing the protocol and testing it using existing projects. The protocol will provide guidance to projects on assessing carbon stocks, greenhouse gas fluxes, and economic impacts in a standardized way. It will incorporate existing carbon modeling tools and involve capacity building activities.
The document discusses standard operating procedures (SOPs), pre-incident planning, and size-up. It emphasizes the importance of SOPs in outlining fireground operations and their relationship to pre-incident plans and size-up. Pre-incident plans provide specific building information that can be rapidly evaluated during size-up to develop an initial incident action plan. Size-up is an ongoing process that considers SOPs, pre-incident plans, and developing incident conditions.
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
This document discusses different strategies for modeling greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stocks, including empirical and process-based models. Empirical models rely on statistical relationships between activity data and emission factors, like those used in IPCC Tiers 1 and 2. Process-based models attempt to simulate underlying biogeochemical processes. Examples of common process models described are DAYCENT, DNDC, and RothC. The document outlines steps to find an appropriate process model, set it up, calibrate it using measurement data, and evaluate its performance through statistical tests. Challenges include limited data for model validation and parameterization for tropical conditions.
Presented by Ian Hanou at the Trees, People, and Built Environment 3 Conference, Birmingham, England, April 2017. Geospatial mapping and analysis of the urban forest including tree inventories and Urban Tree Canopy (UTC) assessments have become commonplace tools in North America. Cities and environmental nonprofits use inventories to improve management and maintenance, and use UTC to develop a citywide benchmark, monitor change, inform master plans, and prioritize planting efforts to maximize benefits where they are lacking in the community. As a natural progression with recent GIS and mobile technology innovations, inventories and UTC data have been incorporated into online mapping programs to increase access to this information and ease-of-use for non-technical users.
Through a series of short case studies, this paper highlights some of the benefits, considerations, and impacts of bringing urban forestry data and prioritization tools into online mapping applications. Evidence suggests that such tools may increase awareness of the urban forest as an asset and a resource for community development, public health goals, and scenario planning. The collaboration that is created during an inclusive process to develop and implement such tools is discussed along with the role of tree professionals and nonprofits in UTC targets, followed by recommendations for practitioners.
Available Software Tools for Land Use GHG Inventories and Project Carbon Bala...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
This document discusses several existing software tools that can be used for land use greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and project carbon balance verification:
- COMET-VR is a web-based decision support tool that provides rapid assessments of GHG impacts from land use and management scenarios.
- ALU (Agriculture and Land Use) is a national GHG inventory software that supports reporting to the UNFCCC and guides users through the inventory process using IPCC methods.
- GEFSOC is a system for regional/national assessments of soil carbon dynamics that can address a variety of issues at large scales with flexibility. It links with other data and models.
Friday Forum: Updating Canada’s Fire Danger Rating System (August 7, 2020)glennmcgillivray
The document discusses updating Canada's Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS). The CFFDRS includes several components like the Fire Weather Index system and Fire Behavior Prediction system. It is used to assess fire danger and predict fire behavior based on weather, fuels, and topography. The summary discusses modernizing the CFFDRS to incorporate new data sources and address changing wildfire challenges. It also outlines proposed changes to various CFFDRS components and models to improve their accuracy while maintaining simplicity.
SRR Indicator Review and Revision Results Summary Draft Final 6-16-10James Bernard
This document summarizes the results of a workshop convened by the Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable to review and revise indicators for measuring the sustainability of rangelands. The workshop participants reviewed 64 existing indicators, proposed revisions to indicator names for clarity and measurability, and developed a matrix cataloging available data sources for each indicator. They found that fully measuring the indicators would require collecting data from over 200 separate measurements. The revised indicators were improved to directly measure ecosystem goods, services and core processes provided by rangelands.
Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing Higher Tiers in the National GHG...ipcc-media
- Developing a national GHG inventory requires integrating data from different sources using methods that rely on data, assumptions, and models. Higher tier methods (Tier 3) use spatially-explicit models to track emissions at the unit level and better capture variations, estimate carbon flows between pools, and project emission scenarios.
- Indonesia has developed the Indonesian National Carbon Accounting System (INCAS) as a Tier 3 integrating tool to produce detailed annual estimates of emissions and removals to support policy and meet reporting needs. The system uses land cover change data and biophysical models within a transparent framework to facilitate verification.
- Higher tiers provide more accurate estimates and ability to analyze management impacts but require consideration of reporting needs
Plant location selection by using MCDM methodsIJERA Editor
Plant location selection has a critical impact on the performance of manufacturing companies. The cost associated with acquiring the land and facility construction makes the location selection a long-term investment decision. The preeminent location is that which results in higher economic benefits through increased productivity and good distribution network. Both potential qualitative and quantitative criteria’s are to be considered for selecting the proper plant location from a given set of alternatives. Consequently, from the literature survey, it is found that the Multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) is found to be an effective approach to solve the location selection problems. In the present research, an integrated decision-making methodology is designed which employs the two well-known decision making techniques, namely Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and Preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluations (PROMETHEE-II) in order to make the best use of information available, either implicitly or explicitly. It is analyze the structure for the solution of plant location problems and to obtain weights of the selected criteria’s. PROMETHEE-II is employed to solve decision-making problems with multiple conflicting criteria and alternatives.
Ambee Historical Wildfire Data Everything You Need To KnowAmbee
Exciting news! Ambee is proud to announce the availability of Ambee's extensive historical fire data, spanning over 6 years, for the entire North American Region. Easily access 6+ years of Ambee’s historical wildfire data today. If you require data for a longer time period, all you need to do is contact us..!
This document provides an overview of a geospatial metadata and spatial data workshop. It discusses the importance of metadata for discovering and managing spatial datasets. It introduces common geospatial metadata standards like FGDC, ISO 19115, and INSPIRE and the concept of application profiles. The document outlines tools and resources for UK academics to create and publish metadata, including the UK AGMAP profile, Geodoc editor, GoGeo portal, and ShareGeo repository. Hands-on sessions demonstrate using these resources to generate metadata and access open spatial data.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
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The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
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Introduction to the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System
1. Development of The Interagency Fuels
Treatment Decision Support System
Stacy A D
St
A. Drury, T i H F k S
Tami H. Funk, Sean M R ff
M. Raffuse
Sonoma Technology, Inc.
Petaluma, California
,
H. Michael Rauscher
Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Fire Management Course
Bothell, Washington
B th ll W hi t
October 15, 2009
909029-3710
3. Introduction and Background Software
Tools and Systems (STS) Study
Fuels
Specialist
Feedback on
Workflow
Scenarios
IFT-DSS
Architecture
Design
Document
IFT-DSS
Conceptual
Design
Document
Software Engineering Institute
p
performed strategic analysis of
g
y
problem space
Feb
Mar
Apr
February 2007
Initiation of
Phase I of the
STS Study
May
Jun Jul
2007
Aug
Sep
IFT-DSS
Workflow
Scenarios
Document
Current
Practices &
Needs
Assessment
Phase I
Jan
IFT-DSS
Software
Design
Document
Software
Architecture
Study
Phase II
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
February 2008
Conclusion of
Phase I of the
STS Study
Mar
Apr
May
Jun Jul
2008
Aug
June 2008
Initiation of
Phase II of the
STS Study
Sep
Oct
Nov
Phase IIIa
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
March 2009
Conclusion of
Phase II of the
STS Study
Apr
May Jun
2009
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
May 2009
Initiation of
Phase IIIa of the
STS Study
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4. State of the Fuels
Treatment Community (1 off 4)
• Fuels treatment planners are responsible for
managing vegetation
– Planning and the decision support process centers around
modeling vegetation disturbances
• Seven steps in the decision support process
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Define project, vegetation, landscape, and scale
p j , g
,
p ,
Prepare and ensure quality of vegetation data
Simulate and analyze fire behavior
Analyze fire effects and/or risk
Design treatment strategies
Simulate treated vegetation, geophysical, and fuel conditions
Simulate treatment effectiveness of reducing fire behavior and
fire effects potentials
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5. State of the Fuels
Treatment Community (2 off 4)
Cu e t y an assortment of
Currently a asso t e t o data, software
so t a e
applications and systems
• Not all are accessible to the
community
• Most are problem-specific
problem specific
• Some are comprehensive but
only support specific data and
use-cases
• It is difficult to “string” them
together
g
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6. State of the Fuels
Treatment Community (3 off 4)
What does this mean for the user community?
y
IFT-DSS must facilitate the most
difficult and time consuming
tasks to ensure success
~90%
Percent of Respondents
o
• Use what they know
• Use tools that are user-friendly,
simple
i l
• May not know that other tools exist
• Limited guidance on which to use
• A lot of time spent “ i i ” tools
l
f i
“stringing”
l
together for specific purposes
• A lot of time spent acquiring and
preparing data
~20-50%
~10-20%
BEHAVE
FOFEM, FIREFAMILY+,
FARSITE, FLAMMAP,
FMA+, FVS/FFE,
LANDFIRE data,
ArcGIS
RERAP, NEXUS,
CONSUME, FRCC,
SIS, FFI/Firemon,
WIMS data,
Google Earth
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7. State of the Fuels
Treatment Community (4 off 4)
What about the existing comprehensive
g
p
systems that “string” models together?
ArcFuels, INFORMS, LANDFIRE IFP
ArcFuels INFORMS LANDFIRE-IFP, Starfire = VERY USEFUL SCIENCE
• Some are inaccessible
• Some require “expert” knowledge
• Do not address all fuels treatment
use cases
• User groups are small
• Do not facilitate collaboration
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8. Objectives of the Interagency Fuels
Treatment Decision Support System
• Simplify the fuels treatment planning decision support
process
– Improve the overall quality of analysis and planning
– Provide new opportunities for data analysis and collaboration
• Control long-term costs by streamlining and optimizing
workload and scalability
• Encourage scientific collaboration by providing a
framework and tools that facilitate adding new software
applications
• Reduce agency information technology (IT) workload
• Promote interagency collaboration within the fire and
fuels community
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9. Workflow Scenarios
Intended to capture the problem-solving needs of the fuels
treatment analysis and planning community
Includes:
• Data acquisition and preparation
• Strategic planning
• S ti ll explicit f l t t
Spatially
li it fuels treatment assignment
t
i
t
• Fuels treatment over time
• Prescribed burn planning
• Risk assessment
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10. Data Acquisition and Preparation (1 of 2)
q
p
Objective: Acquire, prepare, and assure the quality of
vegetation data for use in fuels treatment planning.
Inputs
Tree-lists
Gridded fuels
Vegetation/
Fuels Data Types
FSVeg point data
FSVeg spatial user
upload
LANDFIRE user
upload
Workflow
Growth
QC/edit
Imputation
Outputs
QC/edit
Current, complete
fuels data for
further analysis
10
11. Data Acquisition and Preparation (2 of 2)
q
p
Objective: Acquire, prepare, and assure the quality of
vegetation data for use in fuels treatment planning.
planning
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12. Strategic Planning (1 of 3))
g
g(
Objective: Identify high fire hazard areas within an area of
interest and identify where further analysis may be warranted
based on potential fire hazard. High fire hazard is expressed by
high potential fire behavior and/or undesirable fire effects.
Inputs
Current,
complete fuels;
topography
Vegetation/
Fuels Data Types
Tree-list Polygon
data
LANDFIRE grid data
Workflow
Fire Behavior
QC
Fire Effects
Outputs
Maps and data
of fire behavior
and fire effects
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13. Strategic Planning (2 of 3))
g
g(
Objective: Identify high fire hazard areas within an area of
interest and identify where further analysis may be warranted
based on potential fire hazard. High fire hazard is expressed by
high potential fire behavior and/or undesirable fire effects.
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15. Spatially Explicit Fuels
Treatment Assignment (1 off 3)
Objective: (1) Simulate fuels treatment placement in areas of
high fire hazard within an area of i t
hi h fi h
d ithi
f interest and (2) simulate postt d
i l t
t
treatment influences on fire behavior and fire effects potentials.
Inputs
Current,
complete
fuels;
topography
Vegetation/Fuels
Data Types
Workflow
Outputs
Fire Behavior/Effects/MTT
User
Treatment Fire Behavior/Effects/MTT
Tree-list polygon
data
LANDFIRE
Fire Behavior/Effects/MTT
FVS
Treatment Fire Behavior/Effects/MTT
Fire Behavior/Effects/MTT
Fire Behavior/Effects/MTT
TOM
Maps and data of
treatment
locations; pre- and
post-treatment fire
behavior and fire
effects
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16. Spatially Explicit Fuels
Treatment Assignment (2 off 3)
Objective: (1) Simulate fuels treatment placement in areas of
high fire hazard within an area of i t
hi h fi h
d ithi
f interest and (2) Si l t postt d
Simulate
t
treatment influences on fire behavior and fire effects potentials.
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17. Spatially Explicit Fuels
Treatment Assignment (3 off 3)
Example of fuels treatment optimization
Pre-treatment
P t t
t
Post-treatment
P tt t
t
Simulated fireline intensity for a hypothetical landscape. Light
colored areas indicate low fireline intensity potentials and dark colors
represent high fireline intensity potentials (from Finney et al., 2006).
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18. Fuels Treatment Effectiveness
Over Time (1 off 3)
Objective: Evaluate the temporal durability of fuels treatments;
i.e., h
i
how l
long, i years to d
in
decades, a treatment will continue to
d
ill
i
lower potential fire behavior and fire effects.
Inputs
Current,
complete fuels;
topography
Vegetation/Fuels
Workflow
Data Types
Tree-list polygon
Growth Fire Behavior Fire Effects
data
Growth Fire Behavior Fire
User supplied
Effects Growth…
data
Outputs
Graphs and data
of fuels fire
fuels,
behavior, and fire
effects over time
18
19. Fuels Treatment Effectiveness
Over Time (2 off 3)
Objective: Evaluate the temporal durability of fuels treatments;
i.e., h
i
how l
long, i years to d
in
decades, a treatment will continue to
d
ill
i
lower potential fire behavior and fire effects.
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21. Prescribed Burn Planning (1 of 3)
g
Objective: Provide the information needed to plan, document,
and conduct a proposed, prescribed fi
d
d
d
ib d fire.
Inputs
Fuels;
g
range of
weather
conditions
Vegetation/
Fuels Data Types
User entered single
g
stand level data
Processes
Fire Behavior
Fire Effects
Outputs
QC
Graphs and data
of fire behavior
and fire effects
over a range of
conditions
21
22. Prescribed Burn Planning (2 of 3)
g
Objective: Provide the information needed to plan, document,
and conduct a proposed, prescribed fi
d
d
d
ib d fire.
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24. Risk Assessment
Objective: Provide a probabilistic risk assessment for fuels
treatment planning.
Inputs
Current,
C rrent
complete fuels;
topography
Vegetation/
Fuels Data Types
Tree-list polygon
data
LANDFIRE data
User supplied data
Processes
Fire Behavior
Beha ior
MTT
Burn Probability Mode
QC
Outputs
Maps and data
for fire behavior,
beha ior
burn probability,
and values at
risk
Fire risk = (burn p
(
probability) × (fire hazard index) × (value at risk)
y) (
) (
)
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26. Vision for the Fuels Treatment Community
y
User communities
Informa
ation Techn
nology & G
Governance
e
Integrated systems
g
y
(IFT-DSS, BlueSky,
WFDSS, WFAS)
Common interface
standards
(allows for connections)
Capabilities
(algorithms, models, data)
Scientists and data providers create tools
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27. Supporting Information
pp
g
• Background and supporting information can be found on
the STS Frames website at:
http://frames.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=629&mode=2&in_
hi_userid 952&cached true
hi userid=952&cached=true
• The full document, “Refined Work Flow Scenarios and
Proposed P f of Concept System Functionality f th
P
d Proof f C
tS t
F
ti
lit for the
Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System,”
can be downloaded from the STS Frames website at:
http://frames.nbii.gov/documents/jfsp/sts_study/ift_dss_refined_workflow_
scenarios_20090709.pdf
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