The USGS is collaborating with the DoW on a sequence of initiatives funded by the DoW’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). The USGS is growing and field-testing a number of new applied sciences for the DoW that shall be utilized in managing wildfire-resilient army bases and surrounding lands. These methods embody:
- figuring out the elements that make gas remedy and prescribed hearth efficient in lowering hearth danger on each non-forested and forested lands,
- growing a fireplace danger map based mostly on hearth conduct modeling utilizing completely different gas varieties and circumstances, and
- transferring data, knowledge, and new technical instruments for the DoW to develop hearth administration plans in addition to plan for gas therapies that scale back and mitigate hearth danger on DoW lands.
The overarching objective of this mission is to advance wildland hearth science and technology capacity and to display and make use of progressive applied sciences in army set up administration through a number of interrelated duties.