Center Accomplishmant Highlights: Partnership
NASA Aids with Threat Detection
An early warning system to detect forest threats is among the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center’s priorities. Enter NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, an applied research and technology dynamo. EFETAC was attracted to Stennis’ applied research and technology project office, which was created to bridge the gap between Earth science research and data use to help partner agencies make better informed decisions. The EFETAC/Stennis partnership goal is to develop an integrated, national early warning system to detect changes in forest and wildland conditions that are associated with environmental stressors or disturbance. System development requires interdisciplinary expertise–foresters, landscape ecologists, computer scientists, engineers, image processors, statisticians, geographers, and mathematicians–to bring it all together. Additional partners from the Institute for Technology Development, Science Systems & Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), and Lockheed Martin have also joined the team.
Contact: Danny C. Lee, EFETAC Director, (828) 257-4854, dclee@fs.fed.us
Advanced Technology Supports Integrated Threat Assessment Tools
The collaboration between EFETAC and the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC) supports Center activities by developing advanced tools and technologies that support integrated threat assessments for a variety of audiences. EFETAC and NEMAC staffs work together to develop the database systems and software applications needed to achieve the short-term goals and implement the long-term vision of the Center.
Activities of this collaboration include – improvement of data collection, management and analysis for integrated threat assessment; enhancement of end-user capabilities and expertise for comparative risk and assessment; and coordination of EFETAC-collaborator programmatic activities. The primary benefit of this collaboration and the resulting deliverables relate to (a) understanding the problems involved in data collection, management and analysis of data for integrated threat assessment, (b) creating tools for assessment that meet the high-speed access and sharing needs of the environmental threat community and helping to further understand the problem, and (c) developing selected tools for deployment within the Forest Service (FS) and for decision makers, land owners, extension agents, and others.
Contact: Danny C. Lee, EFETAC Director, (828) 257-4854, dclee@fs.fed.us
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