SBIR Phase I: Fire Information from REmote-sensing and Weather-models Integrated and Supplied to End-users (FIREWISE)

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段的研究项目将证明一个创新的，互动的软件产品，将提高国家的消防，预防和恢复能力的可行性。该产品以独特的方式将美国航天局的遥感数据与先进的天气模型结合起来，通过互联网向决策者直观地提供所产生的数据，并创建以前无法获得的数据集，供现有的火灾模拟软件使用。FIREWISE项目将开发一个系统，该系统结合了公共和私营消防部门迫切需要的两个组成部分：（1）NASA中分辨率成像光谱仪（MODIS）主动火灾数据产品，以及（2）中尺度模型5（MM 5）天气预报。此外，该模型将包括数字高程模型（DEM）和近实时卫星图像，将容纳额外的输入，如植被和燃料类型地图，现有的地理信息系统（GIS）数据层（例如，道路水路所有权FIREWISE作为一种订阅网络服务销售，将允许用户从档案和/或每日更新的数据源中选择空间和时间上适当的数据，并以三维图形显示这些数据，并具有动画功能，使最终用户能够跟踪天气和火灾蔓延等动态因素。此外，FIREWISE将输出数据，以便随时摄取到现有的预测火灾模型中，例如FARSITE，这是一种授权在美国林务局和美国内政部机构使用的火灾行为和增长模拟器。 三个因素结合在一起，使火灾风险成为国家的优先事项：（1）全球变暖;（2）过去的火灾管理;（3）城市/荒地界面的日益发展。对野火行为的改进预测对保护生命和财产变得越来越重要。这个拟议的项目将把联合收割机中分辨率成像分光仪和MM 5数据结合起来，并证明通过互联网对这些数据进行可视化和处理并将其提供给现有火灾模型和其他最终用户的可行性。这些创新包括： (1)可视化-通过在DEM上叠加地理空间和天气数据，FIREWISE将提供火灾危险或正在发生的火灾的三维可视化，远远上级单层静态GIS表示。(2)数据集成- FIREWISE将独特地将联合收割机中分辨率成像光谱仪遥感光学数据与MM 5大气模型输出相结合，以创建新的数据产品来预测火灾危险。 (3)数据访问和交付- FIREWISE将为消防决策者提供前所未有的基于互联网的关键动态消防信息访问。 FIREWISE将通过实现拯救生命、财产和自然资源所需的快速、数据驱动的决策来提高国家的消防能力。FIREWISE还将通过在线提供可视化来实现教育和远程学习计划。此外，美国原住民学生实习生将被纳入FIREWISE开发团队。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project will demonstrate feasibility for an innovative, interactive software product that will improve the Nation's fire fighting, prevention, and restoration capabilities. The product uniquely combines remotely sensed NASA data with a leading-edge weather model, delivers the resulting data to decision makers visually via the Internet, and creates previously unavailable data sets for use by existing fire simulation software. The FIREWISE project will develop a system that combines two components critically needed by the public and private fire fighting sector: (1) NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) active fire data products, and (2) Mesoscale Model 5 (MM5) weather predictions. Additionally the model which will include digital elevation models (DEMs), and near-realtime satellite imagery, will accommodate additional inputs such as vegetation and fuel type maps, existing geographic information system (GIS) data layers (e.g., roads, waterways, ownership. FIREWISE, marketed as a subscription web service, will allow users to select spatially and temporally appropriate data from archival and/or daily-refreshed data sources and visualize them graphically in 3-D with animation capability, allowing end-users to follow dynamic factors such as weather and fire spread through time. Additionally, FIREWISE will output data for ready ingest into existing predictive fire models such as FARSITE, a fire behavior and growth simulator mandated for use across the US Forest Service and US Department of Interior agencies. Three factors have combined to make fire risk a national priority: (1) global warming; (2) past management of fires; and (3) increasing development of the urban/wildland interface. Improved predictions of wildfire behavior have concomitantly become increasingly important to protect life and property. This proposed project will combine MODIS and MM5 data, and demonstrate feasibility for both visualizing and manipulating those data via the Internet and serving them to existing fire models and other end-users. The innovations include: (1) Visualization - by draping geospatial and weather data over DEMs, FIREWISE will provide 3-D visualization of fire hazards or in-progress fires, far superior to single layer, static GIS representations. (2) Data integration - FIREWISE will uniquely combine MODIS remotely sensed optical data with MM5 atmospheric model output to create new data products to predict fire hazards. (3) Data access and delivery - FIREWISE will provide fire decision makers unprecedented Internet-based access to the critical dynamic fire information. FIREWISE will improve the Nation's fire fighting abilities by enabling the rapid, data-driven decision making necessary to saving lives, property, and natural resources. FIREWISE will also enable educational and distance learning programs by making visualizations available on-line. Additionally, Native American student interns will be included in the FIREWISE development team.