"The Southern California Wildfire Hazard Center (using current and near-term capabilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Enterprise (NASA ESE), and developed by a consortium of universities, research organizations, and the Los Angeles County Fire Department) seeks to assist in the management of fire hazards at the urban-wildlands interface to address a continuing regional problem threatening life and property. The members of this consortium will provide a hitherto previous framework for the incorporation of new data sources and the development of new analysis techniques and database mangement tools, as well as produce timely products that can be used as general planning and fire hazard prediction tools and potentially as inputs to fire-behavior models, to both the fire-management and general user communities. "