{"id":15,"date":"2019-03-14T22:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/wei\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2022-05-28T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T19:56:41","slug":"15-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/wei\/15-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Research emphases<\/strong> (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Yu_Wei6\/publications\">Publication link<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Modeling methods: <\/em>data-driven decision support tools; spatial optimization; systems analysis; stochastic programming; machine learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Problem domains: <\/em>forest planning, biomass supply chain and inventory optimization, landscape image processing, hazard fuel management, watershed erosion and sediment control, large fire suppression strategies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some past projects in developing decision support systems<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Forest-Prism Software Development project:<\/em><strong> <\/strong>PRISM stands for Plan-level foRest actIvity Scheduling Model. It is a landscape level forest planning software including 1) a forest inventory, growth and yield database management module, 2) a hybrid Model I and Model II Linear Programming (LP) based optimization module, 3) a Graphic User Interface to facilitate goal-based multiple management objectives, and 4) a reporting and visualization module. PRISM is open-source software developed by using Java, SQLite, and lpsolve. It is a product through collaborations between the US Forest Service Northern Region and Colorado State University. The source code of this software can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/PRISM-Members\/PRISM\/overview\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*********************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F<em>orested Watershed Research and Decision Support (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/forward\/\">FORWARD<\/a>): <\/em>a systems approach to enhance forest stewardship for fire resilient watersheds and communities. FORWARD is a research and decision support center at Colorado State University bringing together faculty and research staff with expertise in forestry, wildland fire, watershed science, economics, spatial analysis, and systems modeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*********************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/warnercnr.colostate.edu\/frs\/westfire-center\/starfire\/applications\/\">StarFire<\/a> project (2004-2020). Primarily designed to provide strategic-level fire risk and benefits information used in long-term fire management and planning. It includes five components: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"ui-id-12\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/warnercnr.colostate.edu\/frs\/westfire-center\/starfire\/landscape-analysis-la\/\">Landscape Analysis (LA)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/warnercnr.colostate.edu\/frs\/westfire-center\/starfire\/fuel-treatment-optimization-prioritization-ft\/\">Fuel Treatment Optimization and Prioritization (FT)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/warnercnr.colostate.edu\/frs\/westfire-center\/starfire\/wildfire-analysis-wf\/\">Wildfire Analysis (WF)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/warnercnr.colostate.edu\/frs\/westfire-center\/starfire\/smoke-impact-potential-sm\/\">Smoke Impact Potential (SM)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/warnercnr.colostate.edu\/frs\/westfire-center\/starfire\/starfire-valuation\/\">STARfire Valuation<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research emphases (Publication link) Modeling methods: data-driven decision support tools; spatial optimization; systems analysis; stochastic programming; machine learning. 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