Modelling, monitoring and management of forest fires / edited by J. de las Heras ... [et al.].

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{north-western spain}

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