The Invasive Species Forecasting System

The Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) is a Web-based information management and modeling environment tailored to the needs of the invasive species community. When fully implemented, it will provide a way of managing the data and modeling activities that underpin invasive species research, management, and policy decision-making.

The ISFS provides a framework for using predictive geospatial models to process NASA and commercial remote sensing data, NBII biological data, personal field data, and data from other sources to create on-demand, local- and regional-scale maps of invasive species patterns and vulnerable habitats. The ISFS framework supports workflow management across three basic Web-accessible services:

Invasive Species Data Service (ISDS)

The ISDS supports data ingest by helping gather and prepare relevant satellite and field data.
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Invasive Species Analysis and Modeling Servce (ISAMS)

The current version of the ISAMS modeling service is based on linear regression modeling, which can be applied with and without kriging to fixed data sets from our project’s study sites.
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Invasive Species Decision Support Services (ISDSS)

The ISDSS provides a context for easily accessing the growing suite of invasive species DSS tools being developed by USGS and their science and management partners.
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