Description:

NASA’s Wildland FireSense is a combination of cross cutting programs and initiatives to enable living with wildfire through a more integrated, interdisciplinary, and pro-active management approach anticipating impacts and modeling risk scenarios for action. This Townhall will highlight NASA's Earth Systems approach, recognizing the complex dynamics of wildland fires and invites collaboration across the weather, water and climate enterprise through a novel Community-of-Practice for knowledge sharing, application co-development, and enriching social benefit. For this townhall the feedback from whitepapers on the challenges and opportunities that can improve wildfire management across sectors only through new collaborative measures will be highlighted. Progress and steps to mobilize a community "sandbox" and hub for integrated science and technology for prototyping new means of developing resilience will be explored. The Town Hall outputs include identifying enterprise approaches that pivot toward anticipatory management of complex conditions, better predict fire-prone areas and guide choices for wildfire interventions. The Town Hall will tackle the challenge to avoid loss of lives and livelihoods while encouraging good fires for healthy ecosystems and robust economies. The townhall will facilitate engagement on topics of geospatial predictive analytics, operational intelligence, cooperative support and partnerships building innovative system solutions for workflows and strategic foresight