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The Services
Services
offered by E-Fis
1) Basic Services
2) Complementary Services
3) Training
4) Access and Maintenance of Historical
Data
5) Web platform for parallel services
Detailed description of the services offered
by E-Fis
1)
Basic Services:
It includes a set of main services that are
of special importance in the forest fires management and even when
the fire is active. These are:
a. System Set-up. It includes required steps
for installing E-FIS in the client, these are the maps generation
and loading in E-FIS system and E-FIS configuration for each user
site. For every region, E-FIS business will apply a number of spatial
analysis techniques and derive a set of maps, which will be used
for forest fire defence planning at long term.
b. Long Term Planning. Maps can be displayed to support long term
planning, and includes: i. Ground Transport Coverage ii. Aerial
Transport Coverage iii. Vigilance Lookouts Coverage iv. Radio-Antennas
Coverage v. Land Value
c. Short Term Planning. This
service is aimed at giving support in the short-term planning (7
to 10 days). E-FIS will make use of meteorological and wind data
predictions to provide a number of maps that integrate the main
characteristics of forest fire: i. Meteorology and Wind ii. Forest
Fuel State iii. Fire Danger iv. Fire Risk
d. Daily Planning. This service
is an assessment in the daily analysis of overall forest fire risk
in a region. Every day in the morning, forest fire managers will
have access to the main components of forest fire theatre, such
as meteorology, fire danger, fire risks, fires in the past day,
etc. E-FIS gathers weather data, process it combining layers of
information and maps, which synthesise forest fire danger situation
daily. With E-FIS, end-users have access to a set of comprehensive,
updated data every day in form of elaborated maps and comprehensive
information regarding the selected region. This service generates
a set of static images regarding fire risk-related maps, which are
presented on-line to the user in the Web page. In normal operation,
changes in underlying maps occur when meteorological or wind conditions
change. Meteorological and wind conditions are evaluated daily.
Other data can be modified according with administration criteria,
such as inputs of new risk activities or changes in risk distribution
maps. The presented maps will be: i. Today's Meteorology and Wind
ii. Today's Forest Fuel State iii. Today's Fire Danger iv. Today's
Fire Risk
d) Crisis Service. This
service focuses in the analysis fire risk, simulation and fire fighting
resources management in the event of forest fire. Fire managers
access to critical information in the site and surroundings of fire
outbreak and perform fire simulation to assess dispatching of fire
fighting forces. E-FIS provides with maps and information about
the fire area, including estimations of fire spread, fire importance
and recommendations about fire fighting resources required to suppress
the fire. Besides this service will provide on-line, in-ground support
to fire crews about forest fire site characteristics. Fire crews
officers can access to the E-FIS system via a portable computer
connected to a GSM mobile phone or via a WAP terminal and obtain
valuable data about fire characteristics, environmental conditions,
and available resources. WAP functionality will be reduced according
to the communication restrictions.
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2) Complementary Services:
It mainly includes services that will be provided
based on the fire experts and/or technical experts. These will be
mainly provided by the E-FIS expert team. The accommodation of E-FIS
service for new customers will entail the preparation of new data
in the E-FIS server. The elaboration and/or adaptation of such data
and supporting systems, including customisations and training of
personnel on the use of E-FIS, can be regarded as a relevant part
of E-FIS. We have considered:
a. Support on technical infrastructure for the
E-FIS installation, load and configuration.
b. Elaboration and/or Adaptation of: i. Fuel Maps ii. Topographic
Maps iii. Road Network iv. Forest Fire Defence Structure
c. On Line Expert Assessment on Specific Fires: In case of severe
fires, and at users' demand, E-FIS will provide specific on-line
information and assessment with human expert, dedicated backstopping
on critical issues to help management of fire resources.
d. Inventory of Forest Fire Landscape i. physical ii. environmental
iii. socio-economic
e. Wildland-Urban Interface
f. Forest Fire Meteorology Characterisation
g. Generation of specific modules for semi-automatic data load,
such as meteorological data or data provided via GPS or other external
systems.
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3) Training:
This service is aimed to provide training support
on forest fire management practices. E-FIS will have the ability
to present interesting training cases, or even, when the user has
contracted it, specific training cases for a specific region.
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4) Access and Maintenance of
Historical Data (Database):
It provides information about real fires occurred
in the past, that is, access to historical data on weather and forest
fires, any time in any place by means of a comprehensive query and
retrieval system providing historical records stored in E-FIS database.
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5) Web platform for parallel
services:
E-FIS site will be the entrance to the forest
fires issues. This site will include links to different pages and
services provided by third parties. E-FIS will provide its intrinsic
nature and structure as a service itself. E-FIS modularity and universality
help to adopt new services from third parties and accommodate them
to the general structure of the services. In this sense, users will
have access not only to basic services on forest fire fighting,
but also those which are of proven usefulness such as meteorological
data forecasting or those derived from Earth Observation Systems
(EOS).
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