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A: An Early Warning System is used as a general term in two instances: to alert before an event happens or to alert as soon as possible when an event has happened. Though the term Early Warning System is used way more often than our Predictive Warning System we have experienced that the term is mostly used to describe the latter (report as soon as possible after the fact). By changing the name of our System we want to differentiate ourselves from that.
Q: Can the predictions be used for monitoring purposes?
A: No, they are predictions and not events that have necessarily already happened. We suggest using an Early Warning System or yearly forest map classification for this purpose. We do develop a risk map along with our binary classification that can be used for risk analysis. However, we have no metrics on accuracy of this risk map, only on the binary classification that is done based on this risk map.
Q: My question is not here! What to do?
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