- Author
- Storey, T. G. | Carder, R. D. | Tolin, E. T.
- Title
- INFORMAP...A Computerized Information System for Fire Planning and Fire Control.
- Coporate
- Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, CA
- Report
- PSW 45, 1969, 19 p.
- Keywords
- prefire planning | fire suppression | information dissemination | forestry | information retrieval
- Identifiers
- INFORMAP - Information Necessary For Optimum Resource Management And Protection; information assembly and display system
- Abstract
- Procedures for processing data in fire planning and fire control have not changed significantly since the early 1930's when the present methods were developed. Data from maps, charts, and lists are still gathered, analyzed, updated, summarized, and displayed by using slow laborious hand methods. This traditional technique in planning before fire occurs limits the number of variables that can be included. An because it is slow, some information becomes quickly outdated, certain variables pertinent to the analysis cannot be included, and all posible alternatives cannot be explored. The shortcomings of current methods can be crucial in fire control manning-planned equipment-levels may be insufficient to suppress the fire, or unneeded forces may be assigned.