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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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Thirty years international wildland fire conferences

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2021
In 1989, the International Wildland Fire Conferences (IWFCs) were launched as a platform for sharing knowledge and expertise in wildland (landscape) fire science, management, capacity building and policy development.
Johann Goldammer
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Review of Vortices in Wildland Fire

Journal of Combustion, 2011
Vortices are almost always present in the wildland fire environment and can sometimes interact with the fire in unpredictable ways, causing extreme fire behavior and safety concerns.
Jason M. Forthofer, Scott L. Goodrick
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Fifty years of progress in wildland fire modelling: from empirical to fully physical CFD models

Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, 2022
The aim of this short review is to present the progress made in wildland fire modelling during the last 50 years and the intellectual track followed by wildland fires models, from fully empirical models in the 60s, to semi-empirical ones in the 70s, to ...
Morvan, Dominique, Accary, Gilbert, Meradji, Sofiane, Frangieh, Nicolas   +3 more
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The wildfire within: Gender, leadership and wildland fire culture [PDF]

, 2018
This article examines findings from a 2016 study on gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS), Canada. The study utilised action research to facilitate an in-depth conversation among wildland firefighters about gender and ...
Eriksen, Christine, Reimer, Rachel
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Quantification of Forest Sub-Surface Fire Suppression Risk Factors and Their Influencing Elements in Boreal Forest of China

Fire
Forest sub-surface fires represent a challenging combustion phenomenon to control, and the process of smoldering is often overlooked in wildfire incidents.
Lili Cao, Tongtong Wang, Xiang Chen, Wenjun Xie, Shilong Feng, Qianle Tang, Xiangyu Liu, Chang Xu, Miaoxin Yu, Sainan Yin, Yanlong Shan   +10 more
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Examining Post-Fire Perceptions of Selected Mitigation Strategies after the 2016 Horse River Wildland Fire in Alberta, Canada

Applied Sciences, 2021
Our aim was to study post-fire perceptions of selected mitigation strategies for wildland fire-induced risks proposed in a previous scientific study for the communities situated within the forested areas.
Quazi K. Hassan, Khan Rubayet Rahaman, M. Razu Ahmed, Sheikh M. Hossain   +3 more
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A framework for use of wireless sensor networks in forest fire detection and monitoring [PDF]

, 2012
Forest fires are one of the main causes of environmental degradation nowadays. Current surveillance systems for forest fires lack in supporting real-time monitoring of every point of a region at all times and early detection of fire threats.
Korpeoglu, Ibrahim, Aslan, Y. E., Ulusoy, T., Ulusoy, Ozgur, Korpeoglu, I., Aslan, Yunus Emre   +5 more
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Strategic Optimization of Fire Prevention Infrastructure in Baihe Forestry Bureau, Changbai Mountain

Fire
The Changbai Mountain Forest Region contains one of the best-preserved mountain forest ecosystems in eastern Asia and serves as a critical ecological barrier in China.
Xiang Chen, Tianyi Ma, Xiangyu Liu, Qianle Tang, Chang Xu, Wenjun Xie, Shilong Feng, Ying Zhou, Sainan Yin, Yanlong Shan   +9 more
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Mapping Burn Extent of Large Wildland Fires from Satellite Imagery Using Machine Learning Trained from Localized Hyperspatial Imagery

Remote Sensing, 2020
Wildfires burn 4–10 million acres annually across the United States and wildland fire related damages and suppression costs have exceeded $13 billion for a single year.
Dale Hamilton, Enoch Levandovsky, Nicholas Hamilton   +2 more
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