Operational application of a decision support tool in fire management in Portugal

2006 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. S243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Mário Ribeiro ◽  
Domingos Xavier Viegas ◽  
António Gameiro Lopes ◽  
Paulo Mangana ◽  
Pedro Moura
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Operational Application ◽  
In Fire

Manager-based valuations of alternative fire management regimes on Cape York Peninsula, Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam G. Drucker ◽  
Stephen T. Garnett ◽  
Marty K. Luckert ◽  
Gabriel M. Crowley ◽  
Niilo Gobius
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Gross Margin ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Management Regimes ◽  
Cape York

Decisions about fire management on pastoral properties are often made with little empirical knowledge. Proper accounting of the interactions between land, pasture, trees and livestock within the context of climatic variability and market conditions is required in order to assess financial implications of alternative fire management regimes. The present paper aims to facilitate such accounting through the development of a manager-driven decision-support tool. This approach is needed to account for variable property conditions and to provide direction towards considering optimal practices among a vast array of potential activities. The tool is an interactive model, developed for a hypothetical property, which analyses the costs and benefits of a baseline (no fires) against a historically based probability of wildfire overlaid by four alternative fire management regimes, representing cumulatively increasing levels of fire management intensity. These are: Regime 1, no action taken to prevent or stop wildfires; Regime 2, fire suppression (reactive fighting of wildfire); Regime 3, Regime 2 plus prevention (early dry-season burning); and Regime 4, Regime 3 combined with storm-burning (burning soon after the first wet-season storm). The model, which shows that fire and fire management have significant influences on the gross margin of Cape York Peninsula cattle properties, can be used as a decision-support tool in developing fire management strategies for individual properties. Specific fire management recommendations follow, together with the identification of potential areas of future work needed to facilitate use of the tool by clients.

A Decision Support Tool for Evaluating Big Data Investment in Transport: Empirical evidence from European use cases of NOESIS project

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Katrakazas ◽  
Natalia Sobrino ◽  
Ilias Trochidis ◽  
Jose Manuel Vassallo ◽  
Stratos Arampatzis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Support Tool
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