Modelling, monitoring and management of forest fires /
edited by J. de las Heras ... [et al.].
- Southampton ; Boston : WIT Press, c2008.
- 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- WIT transactions on ecology and the environment, .
Content Section 1: Computational methods and experiments On the two ways for the computing of the fire front positions and the rate of spread Study of wildfire in-draft flows for counter fire operations In-field determination of drag through grass for a forest-fire simulation model, etc
Section 2: Fire mitigation models An operation dropping model towards efficient aerial firefighting Development of novel composite fire-extinguishing powders on the basis of mineral raw materials
Section 3: Decision support sytems
Firecast system--previsional fire danger index computation system for alpine regions Forest fire danger forecasting in poland Assessing fire risk in stand--level management in Galicia
Section 4: Laboratory and field experiments to assess fire propagation models Methodology for measuring geometrical and thermal characteristics of flames in laboratory forest fire Measurement of physical parameters of forest fires by infrared imaging methods Assessing fire propagation empirical models in shrub fuel complexes using wind tunnel data Mutual influence between surface fire propagation and a tree trunk
Section 5: Monitoring systems
Near-real-time forest fire monitoring system: case study with a manned aerial vehicle within the OSIRIS projec Measuring the effectiveness of poland's fire monitoring system A vision-based monitoring system for very early automatic detection of forest fires Acoustic characterisation of a forest fire event
Section 6: Shrub and peat fire danger rating Simouldering natural fires: comparison of burning dynamics in boreal peat and Mediterranean humus The fuel moisture content of peat in relation to meteorological factors
Section 7: Wildfire modelling Physical phenomena in wildfire modelling Characterizing and modelling the spatial patterns of wildfire ignitions in portugal:fire initiation and resulting burned ares
Section 8: Risk and vulnerability assessment Developing a live fuel moisture model for moorland fire danger rating Forest fire impacts on buildings, etc3
Section 9: Environmental impact Aleppo pine regeneration after fire along an aridity gradient The resilience ability of vegetation after different fire recurrences in provence A post-fire management model to improve Aleppo pine, etc
Section 10: Air pollution and health risk Numerical modelling of the impact of wildland-urban interface fires on coimbra air quality On integration of a fire assimilation system and a chemical transport, etc
Section 11: Case studies The Kornati fire accident--eruptive fire in relatively low fuel load herbaceous fuel conditions The Kornati fire accident--aerodynamic and thermodynamic aspects of the accident The Kornati fire accident facts and figures--configuration, vegetation and meteorology The estimation of temporal and spatial fluctuations in a forest fire hazard index--the case of a forested public area in Japan
Includes references: p. 404 . _ Author index: p. 405-406