Forest Fire Research: The Latest Advances Tools for Understanding and Managing Wildland Fire

Advances in our knowledge of the driving mechanisms of wildland fire and the interaction of fire behavior with the natural and built environments will lead to more efficient decision support systems for fire danger rating, fire spread prediction, and fire hazard mitigation. The topics covered by the...

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Published inJournal of Combustion Vol. 2011; no. 2011; pp. 71 - 72
Main Authors Santoni, Paul-Antoine, Sullivan, Andrew, Morvan, Dominique, Mell, William E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Limiteds 01.01.2011
Hindawi Puplishing Corporation
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Hindawi Limited
Wiley
Subjects
Decision analysis
Decision making
Decision support systems
Fire hazards
Forest & brush fires
Forest fires
Geographic information systems
Hazard mitigation
Knowledge management
Management planning
Prescribed fire
Risk analysis
Risk assessment
Spatial analysis
Urban environments
Vortices
Wildfires
Australia
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Summary:Advances in our knowledge of the driving mechanisms of wildland fire and the interaction of fire behavior with the natural and built environments will lead to more efficient decision support systems for fire danger rating, fire spread prediction, and fire hazard mitigation. The topics covered by these contributions include a decision support tool to support risk-informed decision-making for individual fires (E. K. Noonan-Wright et al.), geospatial analysis for wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning (A. A. Ager et al.), surface fire modeling at landscape scale (P.-A. [...]an investigation of radiation emitted by optically thin and thick flames (P. Boulet et al.) emphasizes the importance of fundamental studies to improve our knowledge of heat transfer in fires.
ISSN:2090-1968
2090-1976
DOI:10.1155/2011/418756