With NASA funding, a team of university and NASA researchers developed the agency's RECOVER system. The software lets the Bureau of Land Management in Idaho gather, in minutes, all the information it needs to formulate plans for stabilizing and recovering from wildfires. The bureau has also found RECOVER useful for determining where fires will spread and containing them.
Much of the geographical data the Bureau of Land Management in Idaho uses to compile plans to rehabilitate areas hit by wildfires comes from NASA-built satellites. Through its Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science program, the agency funded two of its own researchers and an outside geographic information system specialist to create software that can quickly pull together all the geographic data necessary to create the plans.
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