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Forest Fires: Fire Management and the Power Law
2020Forest fires do not only destroy plants, animals, and structures, but also change the ecology of the habitat. While research of fire dynamics is a hot topic, there are many controversial issues in the field. Forest fires are commonly considered best examples for a scale-free, power-law distribution.
István Karsai +2 more
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Forest fire management with Negoplan
1996The control of forest fires is a complex domain that requires a variety of knowledge and skills in decision making and planning under uncertainty. It poses a challenging problem for the design of simulation and support systems, and therefore acts as a good testbed for the application of intelligent system methodologies.
Sunil J. Noronha, Stan Szpakowicz
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Managing Forest Fires with i-Protect Fire Simulation Module
2012 16th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, 2012Emergency management is an essential capability in modern society. As disasters can happen at any time and can differ from each other considerably, it is necessary to develop a supple framework which can comply with each situation. This article discusses the fire simulation component of i-Protect.
Ioannis Filippopoulos +2 more
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Fire Modelling in Forest Fire management
2005Fire Modelling in Forest Fire ...
Šerić, Ljiljana +2 more
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Information Extraction for Forest Fires Management
2008Forest fires are a recurrent environmental and economic emergency worldwide. In Southern Europe the year 2003 is considered one of the worst ever with a total burnt area of 740,000 hectares [22]. Even if in some countries according to the national burnt area statistics the problem seems to be under control and of steady or decreasing magnitude, in ...
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Disastrous Forest Fires: Management and Control
Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2018Forest fires are the most common hazard in forests causing havoc with biodiversity. Forest fires may occur naturally; however, about 80 per cent of forest fires in the world are caused by human beings. Forest Survey of India estimates that about half of the country’s forests are affected by fire.
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Fire Management in Tropical Forests
2015The chapter “Fire Management” of the Tropical Forest Management Handbook provides an introduction to the history and ecology of fires in ecosystems of the tropics (closed evergreen forests; closed and open seasonal forests; fire-climax pine forests in the tropical submontane and montane altitudes, subtropical lowlands; savannas and open woodlands ...
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Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates
Science, 2013Policy focused on fire suppression only delays the inevitable.
S. L. Stephens +6 more
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