CSR-CSI: System Integration of Dynamical Data Driven Wildfire Spread and Firefighting Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization

最近的野火凸显了野火对世界各地社区和生态系统的严重威胁。在何时何地部署有限的消防资源方面，需要新的系统软件工具来协助进行有效的消防管理。该项目为有效的野火管理开发了一个集成的数据采集、建模、仿真和优化软件环境。该环境集成了实时获取天气和火场位置数据，快速模拟火灾蔓延以预测火灾行为，及时优化计算消防资源部署，以及建模和模拟消防以评估灭火策略。将这些通常单独处理的组件集成在一起，可以形成一个新的综合软件系统，有效地支持火灾管理的实时最佳决策，并最大限度地降低消防风险和成本。具体的研究目标包括为动态数据驱动的野火管理开发集成实时数据采集、火灾蔓延模拟、随机优化和消防模拟的系统架构和软件环境，以及开发运行时环境以支持分布式计算环境中不同功能组件之间的高效计算和无缝通信。集成系统软件环境将提供必要的决策支持工具，以协助消防决策。软件环境还将作为火灾管理的宝贵培训和规划工具，并将为学生和研究人员提供多学科教育工具。

Recent wildfires have highlighted the serious threat from wildfires to communities and ecosystems throughout the world. There is a need for new systems software tools to assist in effective fire management regarding where and when to deploy limited firefighting resources. This project develops an integrated data acquisition, modeling, simulation, and optimization software environment for effective wildfire management. This environment integrates real-time acquisition of weather and fire-front position data, fast simulation of fire spread to predict fire behavior, just in-time optimization to compute firefighting resource deployment, and modeling and simulation of firefighting to assess strategies of fire suppression. Integrating these components that are usually treated in isolation enables a novel comprehensive software system to effectively support real-time optimal decision-making for fire management and minimize firefighting risk and cost. Specific research objectives include developing system architecture and a software environment that integrates real time data acquisition, fire spread simulation, stochastic optimization, and firefighting simulation for dynamical data driven wildfire management, and developing runtime environment to support efficient computation and seamless communication among the different functional components in a distributed computing environment. The integrated systems software environment will provide a needed decision support tool to assist in firefighting decision making. The software environment will also serve as a valuable training and planning tool for fire management, and will provide a multidisciplinary educational tool for students and researchers at large.