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Since 2011, ISU and NASA have worked on the Rehabilitation Capability Convergence for Ecosystem Recover (RECOVER) project to rapidly plan the recovery of landscapes following wildfires. RECOVER has been used to analyze dozens of wildfires in 蜜桃视频, Oregon, California and other western locations.

Using RECOVER, it takes just five minutes for land managers to produce a detailed, GIS-based web map and reports that provide the information needed to plan for the recovery of a wildfire. This information previously took days to compile.

The economic and social benefits of the NASA RECOVER program are being analyzed in a study that includes principal investigator Keith Weber, director of the ISU GIS Training and Research Center; along with co-principal investigators Eric Lindquist, director of the Boise State University Public Policy Research Center; John Schnase, senior computer scientist in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center鈥檚 Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office; and Tesa Stegner, ISU economics professor. A student assistant also will join the team when they begin their work this fall.

鈥淲e are going to be very open on this study,鈥� Weber said. 鈥淲e will be looking at very specific things such as how one area of a burn may require re-seeding while another doesn鈥檛, but we will also be looking at a much broader sense on how the use of the RECOVER system might affect policies coming from land management agencies at the state, regional and national level.鈥�

Lindquist added: 鈥淣ASA is serious about understanding the use or non-use of their science, data and products. A socioeconomic assessment of a specific project such as RECOVER, is a terrific opportunity to explore this concern and also develop new trans-disciplinary collaborations across 蜜桃视频鈥檚 universities.鈥�

Some parts of the study will be more subjective than others. For example, Weber said by employing the RECOVER program, land managers may be able to rehabilitate wildlife habitat more rapidly, reduce erosion and prevent costly debris flows such as mudslides and landslides.

 鈥淗ow do you quantify or put on dollar value on something that didn鈥檛 happen, such as a debris flow that was prevented because of proper re-seeding done following a fire?鈥� Weber said. 鈥淲e are going to assess the gamut of those possibilities affected by wildfire and we have a strong team to do it.  I look forward to working with an economist and public policy expert to address these issues. 鈥�

The official title of the grant is 鈥淓valuating the Socioeconomic Impacts of Rapid Assembly and Deployment of Geospatial Data in Wildlife Emergency Response Planning.鈥�

More information on the RECOVER program is located online at or .

Photo information: Keith Weber, top, Eric Lindquist, middle, Tesa Stegner, bottom.