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Prediction of Fire Propagation in Forest Areas using Genetic Algorithm [PDF]

ITM Web of Conferences, 2020
Forest fire causes significant damages to environment and living organisms. It becomes troublesome to recover from the consequences of forest fire. The early and accurate prediction of forest fire propagation in forest area will help in fire management ...
Amol Dhumal Rashmi
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TreeMap, a tree-level model of conterminous US forests circa 2014 produced by imputation of FIA plot data

Scientific Data, 2021
Measurement(s) forested area Technology Type(s) machine learning Factor Type(s) biophysical variables • geographic location • forest type • forest height • forest percent cover Sample Characteristic - Environment vegetation layer Sample Characteristic ...
Karin L. Riley, Isaac C. Grenfell, Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Wiener   +3 more
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Fire Drivers Affecting Forest Fire Occurrences in the Tropical Mixed Broad-leaved Forests of Nepal

Applied Environmental Research, 2021
Forest fires triggered by various natural and anthropogenic drivers are increasing and threatening forest ecosystems across the globe. In Nepal, the high value Tropical Mixed Broad-leaved Forests are prone to fire caused by both natural and ...
Krishna Bahadur Bhujel, Rejina Maskey Byanju, Ambika P. Gautam, Ramesh Prasad Sapkota, Udhab Raj Khadka   +4 more
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Fire Occurrence in Hemi-Boreal Forests: Exploring Natural and Cultural Scots Pine Fire Regimes Using Dendrochronology in Lithuania

Land, 2022
Fire is an important natural disturbance and a driver of hemi-boreal forest successional trajectories, structural complexity, and biodiversity. Understanding the historic fire regime is an important step towards sustainable forest management. Focusing on
Michael Manton, Charles Ruffner, Gintautas Kibirkštis, Gediminas Brazaitis, Vitas Marozas, Rūtilė Pukienė, Ekaterina Makrickiene, Per Angelstam   +7 more
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Forest Carbon Emission Sources Are Not Equal: Putting Fire, Harvest, and Fossil Fuel Emissions in Context

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Climate change has intensified the scale of global wildfire impacts in recent decades. In order to reduce fire impacts, management policies are being proposed in the western United States to lower fire risk that focus on harvesting trees, including large-
Kristina J. Bartowitz, Eric S. Walsh, Jeffrey E. Stenzel, Crystal A. Kolden, Tara W. Hudiburg   +4 more
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Multi-Objective Scheduling of Fuel Treatments to Implement a Linear Fuel Break Network

Fire, 2022
We developed and applied a spatial optimization algorithm to prioritize forest and fuel management treatments within a proposed linear fuel break network on a 0.5 million ha Western US national forest.
Pedro Belavenutti, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Woodam Chung   +3 more
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Policy narratives in forest fire management

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
Abstract As the risk of forest fires increases around the globe, the issues of how to control, suppress, and prevent them are the subjects of growing public and political attention. This study focuses on the political debate in Germany regarding forest fires and provides insights into the conceptualization of forest fires and forest fire
Nikola Tietze, Lars Gerhold, Pierre L Ibisch   +2 more
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Forest Fire Driving Factors and Fire Risk Zoning Based on an Optimal Parameter Logistic Regression Model: A Case Study of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, China

Fire, 2023
Planning the analyses of the spatial distribution and driving factors of forest fires and regionalizing fire risks is an important part of forest fire management.
Fuhuan Zhang, Bin Zhang, Jun Luo, Hui Liu, Qingchun Deng, Lei Wang, Ziquan Zuo   +6 more
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Characterization of wildland-urban interfaces for fire prevention in the province of Valencia (Spain)

Forest Systems, 2013
Aim of study. The present study is the first attempt to characterize and map wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) in eastern Spain (province of Valencia) and its relationship with wildfire occurrence. Area of study. The study area is located in eastern Spain
J. Madrigal Olmo, J.A. Ruiz, R. Planelles, C. Hernando   +3 more
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Developing the US Wildland Fire Decision Support System

Journal of Combustion, 2011
A new decision support tool, the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) has been developed to support risk-informed decision-making for individual fires in the United States.
Erin K. Noonan-Wright, Tonja S. Opperman, Mark A. Finney, G. Thomas Zimmerman, Robert C. Seli, Lisa M. Elenz, David E. Calkin, John R. Fiedler   +7 more
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