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Sustainability, Encroachment, and Room to Maneuver
Welcome to the Sustainability, Encroachment, and Room to Maneuver (SERM) home page, a resource for regional planning.

This site is for installation planners concerned with current and future incompatible land use (encroachment) issues.

  • Assess Sustainability and Encroachment
    Conduct national- and regional-scale analyses of relative vulnerability with respect to nine sustainability issues: The web-based Sustainable Installation Regional Risk Assessment (SIRRA™), is currently available through URL: SIRRA™.
  • Historic Growth Analyses
    Collect and portrays historic and current trends and risk factors by analyzing landscape changes in the region/vicinity of one or several military installations. Trends are drawn from the analysis of historic land use and land cover maps, satellite images, and other sources.
  • Urban Growth Modeling
    Project Urban Patterns: With the mLEAM suite of software tools and analyses you can analyze current and proposed city, county, and state regional plans to understand implications of those plans on your installation's future opportunities to support different training and testing missions.
    Quantify Mission Impacts: mLEAM evaluates projected urban growth patterns with respect to military installation opportunities to test and train. Regional training and testing areas can be identified that will be acceptable to future neighbors.
  • Incompatible Land Use Solutions
    Working with local municipalities, counties, cities, and towns, develop and test alternative location of highways and access points, development of utilities, creation of new parks, forests, and natural areas, and purchase/exchange of property rights. The web-based Proactive Options with Neighbors for Defense installation sustainability (PONDS™), is currently available through URL: PONDS™.

Use the menu at left to explore each.

SERM is part of the Fort Future program

Announcements
Feb. 10, 2006
The Sharing Future Space conference was hosted at the University of Illinois, April 11-12, 2006. Purpose of this Workshop: To examine the capabilities that have been developed for enhanced installation and community planning, case studies in which these capabilities have been applied, and the requirements for broader application and enhanced future capabilities. Please view the agenda which is posted on the conference website.
Oct. 6, 2005
Please click on the link below to read the new SERM Newsletter!
Featured Items
Bookmark Land Use Evolution & Impact Assessment Model (LEAM) Home Page Open Bookmark
LEAM home page hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Bookmark PONDS Web Site Open Bookmark
Link to the Proactive Options with Neighbors for Defense-installation Sustainability (PONDS) Web site.
Bookmark Proceedings of the 2005 Joint Services Environmental Management Conference & Exhibition Open Bookmark
This conference combined NDIA's Environment and Energy Symposium and the Joint Services Environmental Management Conference. The theme was "Sustaining the Mission and our Environment."
Document SERM Poster Summer 2005 (PPT 3.43 MB) Open Document
This PowerPoint file can be printed out as a large scale poster. The SERM poster was displayed at the JSEM (Joint Services Environmental Management) in April 2005.
Bookmark Urban Growth Analysis Model Results Open Bookmark
This web site contains working and preliminary results from testing the effect of alternative regional plans on the opportunities for military training decades into the future. Results can be viewed for: Fort Jackson, Camp Atterbury, Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Carson, Champaign, IL., Kishwaukee River Basin, and Fort Knox. New results may be posted here.
General Information
Photo - SERM Overview
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