Dual-scenario Adaptive Operation & Resilient Empowerment: Developing a Full-area Reliable Modern Communication Guarantee System for Wildland Ecosystems

Forest and grassland areas span vast territories, feature complex terrain, and experience variable climates, encompassing both routine management tasks and sudden disaster risks. For a long time, traditional communications systems have suffered from the shortcomings of "emphasizing construction over emergency response, and emphasizing public networks without backups." Daily management relies on public networks, and once sudden incidents such as forest and grassland fires, geological landslides, or extreme rainstorms occur, problems such as network outages, loss of contact, and dispatch paralysis easily arise, making it difficult to cope with extreme disaster scenarios. Relying on multi-technology integration involving wireless communications, private network trunking, Mesh self-organizing networks, and satellite backup, a resilient forest and grassland communications system can be built that integrates peacetime and wartime needs, is usable in ordinary times, reliable in emergencies, and remains connected even when networks are down. This achieves integrated coordination of routine management and emergency preparedness, comprehensively enhancing the forest and grassland industry's routine governance and risk resistance in extreme disasters.

Focusing on emergency preparedness to shore up the bottom line of emergency communications in extreme scenarios. Compared with ordinary industry communications, the greatest characteristic of forest and grassland communications is that they are seldom used in ordinary times, must be used in emergencies, and must get through in dangerous situations. After forest and grassland fires or geological secondary disasters occur, public network base stations are damaged, power is interrupted, and lines are destroyed, causing conventional communications to fail completely. Relying on a resilient architecture in which lightweight self-organizing networks, portable private networks, and satellite communications serve as mutual backups, an emergency communications network that can be rapidly self-established, autonomously controlled, and independently operated can be created under extreme conditions of public network collapse and infrastructure destruction. Whether facing mountain obstruction, dense forest blockage, or large-scale disaster network outages, it can achieve fireline dispatch, video image transmission, personnel positioning, and directive interoperability, ensuring that communications remain uninterrupted, command remains connected, and situational awareness remains intact throughout the disaster response process. This completely resolves the weakness of traditional communications "collapsing as soon as a disaster strikes."

Adapting to ecological protection requirements to achieve green and low-carbon construction. Protected natural areas and ecological red-line zones are highly ecologically sensitive with strict construction controls, and traditional large-scale base station, tower, and optical cable construction can easily damage pristine landforms and vegetation. The wireless resilient communications system focuses on lightweight, distributed, and low-disturbance construction, deploying small relay nodes relying on management stations and watchtowers and using solar-plus-storage power supply. It requires no large-scale civil engineering and no long-distance cabling, with minimal impact on the ecological environment. It not only complies with protected area control requirements but also fills the communications gaps in remote areas at low cost, achieving compatibility and parallel advancement of ecological protection and informatization construction, and creating green and sustainable forest and grassland communications infrastructure.

In summary, a resilient forest and grassland communications system integrating various needs is an important foundational project for modern forest and grassland governance. It breaks down the barriers between routine management and emergency assurance, achieves intensive utilization of communications resources, and integrated construction of routine operation and maintenance with emergency preparedness. It not only serves the long-term guardianship of lucid waters and lush mountains but also safeguards emergency safety under extreme disasters, providing solid, lasting, and reliable digital communications support for the high-quality development of the forest and grassland industry and the building of ecological security barriers.