TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptual design of a nationwide spatial decision support system for forest fire prevention and fighting
AU - Sukkar, Abdullah
AU - Dogru, Ahmet Ozgur
AU - Alganci, Ugur
AU - Seker, Dursun Zafer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Fotogrammetria e Topografia (SIFET) 2024.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - Wildfires have become a growing global concern due to the environmental and economic damage they cause. Climate change is a primary cause of wildfires as it increases the frequency, extent, and severity of wildfires. In addition to climate change, human activities have become a major cause of wildfires, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Since wildfire is a very complicated environmental problem, effectively responding to and minimising the danger of a wildfire necessitates the integration of all available information into decision-making systems. The complexity of wildfires can have a negative impact on decision-making, particularly when decisions are temporally made under dynamic, uncertain, and contradictory conditions. Since the early 1990s, there has been a rise in the occurrence of “mega-fires” throughout Europe, which are characterised by wildfires that surpass the present firefighting capabilities. Controlling mega-fires exceeds the response capacity of the individual institutions as effective wildfire management requires extensive coordination of the institutions and all available resources at a local, regional, and national level. This cooperation necessitates the integration of advanced technologies with scientific knowledge, as well as the combination of various heterogeneous spatial and non-spatial data. GIS technology provides an efficient, expedited, and economical process of data collection and analysis. In the last decades, GIS-based decision support systems have been used to improve the efficiency of firefighting processes like planning, management, and decision-making. In this study, a conceptual framework of a GIS-based decision support system for wildfire prevention and fighting in Turkey was proposed. The presented conceptual design aims to improve the firefighting capacity by providing decision-oriented spatial information on wildfire risks and dangers timely through integrated functional tools efficiently.
AB - Wildfires have become a growing global concern due to the environmental and economic damage they cause. Climate change is a primary cause of wildfires as it increases the frequency, extent, and severity of wildfires. In addition to climate change, human activities have become a major cause of wildfires, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Since wildfire is a very complicated environmental problem, effectively responding to and minimising the danger of a wildfire necessitates the integration of all available information into decision-making systems. The complexity of wildfires can have a negative impact on decision-making, particularly when decisions are temporally made under dynamic, uncertain, and contradictory conditions. Since the early 1990s, there has been a rise in the occurrence of “mega-fires” throughout Europe, which are characterised by wildfires that surpass the present firefighting capabilities. Controlling mega-fires exceeds the response capacity of the individual institutions as effective wildfire management requires extensive coordination of the institutions and all available resources at a local, regional, and national level. This cooperation necessitates the integration of advanced technologies with scientific knowledge, as well as the combination of various heterogeneous spatial and non-spatial data. GIS technology provides an efficient, expedited, and economical process of data collection and analysis. In the last decades, GIS-based decision support systems have been used to improve the efficiency of firefighting processes like planning, management, and decision-making. In this study, a conceptual framework of a GIS-based decision support system for wildfire prevention and fighting in Turkey was proposed. The presented conceptual design aims to improve the firefighting capacity by providing decision-oriented spatial information on wildfire risks and dangers timely through integrated functional tools efficiently.
KW - Conceptual design
KW - DSS
KW - Forest
KW - GIS
KW - Wildfire
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185681140&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12518-024-00556-9
DO - 10.1007/s12518-024-00556-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85185681140
SN - 1866-9298
VL - 16
SP - 347
EP - 363
JO - Applied Geomatics
JF - Applied Geomatics
IS - 2
ER -