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FEWSION Database and Data Product: Mesoscale Data Fusion to Map and Model the US FEW System

Description

The food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus is a dynamic, coupled natural-human system manifesting at the mesoscale, in which interregional trade, river basins and aquifers, irrigation districts, crop belts, states, tribes, cities, power grids, climate gradients, and seasonal timescales interact. This technology employs a specialized mathematical network and ecological theories and uses economic theory and agent-based modeling to identify and model the evolution of the network in response to historically observed stresses and shocks in excess of critical thresholds.

Additional Information

Patent number and inventors

16/862,252

Benjamin Ruddell and Richard Rushforth.

Potential applications

Supply chain and infrastructure applications.

Benefits and advantages

Conceptually innovative, this invention establishes a forward leap in systems-level synthetic understanding of the FEW nexus to analyze supply chains and infrastructure vulnerabilities, to prepare for nature disasters, and to support emergency response operations.

Case number and licensing status

2019-003

This invention is available for licensing.