Prediction and Prevention of Wildfires
• The 10-year regulatory strategy will require new investments in collaborative capacity , both within the Forest Service and other Federal agencies and for Tribes , States , partners , and communities .
• Adopting regulatory standards and legislative needs poses challenges especially regarding the use of Drone implementation .
• Co-ordination across the Government would require consistent effort to seek just the right time for approvals .
• No single entity can accomplish the work alone to achieve the collective impact that our forest and communities need . We must build a multijurisdictional coalition to work across land management . This includes work across Federal , Tribal , State , local , and private lands . Partnerships , including those beyond existing contracts and agreements , will help identify barriers to success and ways to overcome them .
• Over the last 10 years , the number of agency permanent employees dedicated to fire suppression has significantly increased , while the number of employees in other fields has decreased : we need to rebuild skills and workforce capacity to accomplish fuels and forest health treatments and fully engage with communities at the necessary pace and scale .
• Low band networks such as LowRaWan or 6LoWPaN network ’ s data transfer capacity in depth forest areas is a challenge . Equivalently , solutions can leverage Mesh , 4G and future networks of Wi-Sun , 5G etc ., but the anticipated implementation cost could be higher for the longer forest area to cover .
• Implementing Security components is a challenge due to the ongoing adoption of technologies such as 5G , Edge and IoT .
• Implementing DLR ( Dynamic Line Ratings ) is costly and not all utilities are looking for that . The solution leverages DLR inputs and without that it can ’ t achieve desirable accuracy .
• It is crucial to know wildfire hazards due to natural factors . When planning regular operations and thinking of how to prevent a wildfire from happening , foresters should consider current and upcoming weather conditions and their danger to forests .
• Monitoring is primarily concerned with detecting active fires and estimating burnt areas . Satellite instruments have increased the use of earth observation data . Despite the increased availability of satellite data , this is not fully used operationally . For early warning purposes , continuous forest surveillance data assessment and its resilience has always been a challenge .
• There is limited research on fire management in the country to assess burning patterns and trends for input into fire management , etc .
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