2008 Partnership Highlights
Advanced Technology Supports Integrated Threat Assessment Tools
The collaboration between the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) and the University of North Carolina Asheville's 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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