Abstract
 Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Create a Wildfire Model Track: Modeling Author(s): Peter Johnson, Gary Christopherson Some of the most important questions in wildland fire modeling involve the inclusion or exclusion of anthropogenic factors. Wildfire modeling efforts in the past have focused on fire ignition, behavior, and spread characteristics with little, if any, effort made to include human values in wildfire prone environments. This lack of integration is due primarily to the difficulty in comparing wildfire variables with human landscape values. This research used the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) combined with a geographic information system to manage the integration of stakeholder opinion on spatially-based wildfire and landscape value data. AHP allowed stakeholders to make pairwise comparisons between competing variables and then calculated a weight for each. These weighted variables were used to produce a strategic decision support system for wildfire management that incorporated both social and natural science data. Peter Johnson University of Arizona Center for Applied Spatial Analysis Harvill Bldg., Box 3 Tucson, AZ , AZ 85721 US Phone: 520-621-6181 E-mail: peter@casa.arizona.edu Gary Christopherson University of Arizona Center for Applied Spatial Analysis Harvill Bldg, Box 3 Room 460 Tucson 85716 US Phone: 520-621-6267 E-mail: garych@casa.arizona.edu |
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