Establishment of the TREECS Platform: A Survey of Existing Tools, Portals, and Frameworks
Abstract
The Training Range Environmental Evaluation and Characterization System (TREECS) is being developed by the Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to provide a tool with varying levels of capability to forecast the fate of munitions constituents (MC) within and transported from ranges and provide the range manager with strategies to meet environmental compliance goals for human and ecological health. TREECS will be developed mainly as a web-enabled system although the more advanced analysis tiers may require the user to download analysis components that will need to be run on his/her system. TREECS initially focuses on contaminant stressors and health-based end points, but allows the addition of other stressors and environmental end-point metrics. The general approach to developing TREECS is analysis of existing tools for use in training range environmental risk evaluation and the development of innovative adaptations of those tools that are appropriate and can easily be applied to manage ranges. This technical note describes the existing tools, portals, and frameworks that are undergoing evaluation for use with TREECS and whether the underlying technology/data of those and TREECS should support linkages to one another.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA518931
Entities
People
- Billy E. Johnson
- Jeffrey A. Gerald
- Mark S. Dortch
- Michael R. Fontan
Organizations
- Engineer Research and Development Center