Dr. Stefan R. Falke
Environmental Engineering Science Program
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1180
One Brookings Drive
Saint Louis, MO 63130-9989
stefan@me.wustl.edu

Dr. Stephen D. Ambrose
Program Manager
Disaster management Applications
Headquarters Office of earth Science
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Code YO, 300 E. Street, SW
Washington, DC 20546
sambrose@hq.nasa.gov

Topics included

This session focuses on developing decision support systems to aid fire management in the eastern states. This will include systems for scheduling of fire fighting resources as well as making decisions on long-term ecological management. It will explore data and system integration, databases and middle-ware, distributed systems, geographic information systems, information collection and retrieval, and expert systems that either exist or might be developed to aid wildland fire management. Additionally, the session will address issues of information collection and retrieval, integration of remotely sensed and ground-based monitoring, and data mining for wildland fires.