Download or read book GIS FOR FIRE MANAGEMENT written by Marco Antonio Olmos Gonzalez and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This project has utilised GIS for the creation of a Fire Threat Model. The main objective of this study was to develop this model and associated planning tool for fire management in Litchfield National Park. A comprehensive spatial database for fire management purposes in Litchfield National Park was also compiled, gathering relevant data to derive fire risk, fire hazard, ecological and economical values that make up the Fire Threat Model. One key component of the database was the land cover map, which was created using satellite imagery for the identification of different fuel types. The preliminary results show the potential of the model as a scenario-testing tool to identify areas under threat of fire and using this information to support effective fire planning. For this potential to be realised, the various limitations affecting the accuracy of the model should be addressed. Some of these limitations include the availability of a vegetation map for Litchfield National Park, an essential component of the Fire Threat Analysis process. The creation of a fuel model for identifying current conditions of fire risk is also important. The need for a consultation process to discuss and refine parameters and weightings used in the model should also be considered. One of the objectives of this study was to provide Park Management with maps identifying different scales of threat across the park. Neither the maps nor the GIS will prevent the iginition and spread of fires, rather astute fire managers utilise these tools to carry out more effective fire prevention activities, become better prepared for future incidents and prioritise their activities."--P. 39-40.
Download or read book Geo information for Disaster Management written by Peter van Oosterom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geo-information technology can be of considerable use in disaster management, but with considerable challenge in integrating systems, interoperability and reliability. This book provides a broad overview of geo-information technology, software, systems needed, currently used and to be developed for disaster management. The text invites discussion on systems and requirements for use of geo-information under time and stress constraints and unfamiliar situations, environments and circumstances.
Download or read book Prepare Respond Renew GIS for Wildland Fire written by Anthony Schultz and published by Applying GIS. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare, Respond, Renew: GIS for Wildland Fire explores a collection of real-life stories about wildland fire agencies successfully using GIS for preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery and rehabilitation workflows.
Download or read book Geospatial Information written by Congress. House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping People Safe written by Ryan Lanclos and published by Applying GIS. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping People Safe: GIS for Public Safety explores how emergency management, law enforcement, fire, rescue, emergency medical services, and homeland security agencies use geographic information system (GIS) technology to mitigate the effects of threats and hazards in their communities. The book pairs with online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content to help get you started using GIS in your own organization.
Download or read book Predicting Monitoring and Assessing Forest Fire Dangers and Risks written by Baranovskiy, Nikolay Viktorovich and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the catastrophic processes of forest fire danger, different deterministic, probabilistic, and empiric models must be used. Simulating various surface and crown forest fires using predictive information technology could lead to the improvement of existing systems and the examination of the ecological and economic effects of forest fires in other countries. Predicting, Monitoring, and Assessing Forest Fire Dangers and Risks provides innovative insights into forestry management and fire statistics. The content within this publication examines climate change, thermal radiation, and remote sensing. It is designed for fire investigators, forestry technicians, emergency managers, fire and rescue specialists, professionals, researchers, meteorologists, computer engineers, academicians, and students invested in topics centered around providing conjugate information on forest fire danger and risk.
Download or read book Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management written by Emilio Chuvieco and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remote Sensing Modeling and Applications to Wildland Fires written by John J. Qu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists and managers alike need timely, cost-effective, and technically appropriate fire-related information to develop functional strategies for the diverse fire communities. "Remote Sensing Modeling and Applications to Wildland Fires" addresses wildland fire management needs by presenting discussions that link ecology and the physical sciences from local to regional levels, views on integrated decision support data for policy and decision makers, new technologies and techniques, and future challenges and how remote sensing might help to address them. While creating awareness of wildland fire management and rehabilitation issues, hands-on experience in applying remote sensing and simulation modeling is also shared. This book will be a useful reference work for researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the fields of fire science, remote sensing and modeling applications. Professor John J. Qu works at the Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science at George Mason University (GMU), USA. He is the Founder and Director of the Environmental Science and Technology Center (ESTC) and EastFIRE Lab at GMU.
Download or read book Development of Coarse scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study was to provide managers with national-level data on current conditions of vegetation and fuels developed from ecologically based methods to address these questions: How do current vegetation and fuels differ from those that existed historically? Where on the landscape do vegetation and fuels differ from historical levels? In particular, where are high fuel accumulations? When considered at a coarse scale, which areas estimated to have high fuel accumulations represent the highest priorities for treatment?
Download or read book Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Forest Fire Management written by Jesus San-Miguel Ayanz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Special Interest Group on Forest Fires, that took place in Stresa, (Italy) on 20-21 October 2011. The main subject of the workshop was the operational use of remote sensing in forest fire management and different spatial scales were addressed, from local to regional and from national to global. Topics of the workshops were also grouped according to the fire management stage considered for the application of remote sensing techniques, addressing pre fire, during fire or post fire conditions.
Download or read book GIS Database Development to Analyze Fire History in Southern Arizona and Beyond written by Pamela J. Swantek and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide written by NWCG and published by NWCG Training Branch. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide is a revision of what used to be called the Fireline Handbook, PMS 410-1. This guide has been renamed because, over time, the original purpose of the Fireline Handbook had been replaced by the Incident Response Pocket Guide, PMS 461. As a result, this new guide is aimed at a different audience, and it was felt a new name was in order.
Download or read book Towards an Operational Use of Remote Sensing in Forest Fire Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Wildfire Hazards and Risks written by R Neil Sampson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop accurate computer models to determine wildfire risks and controlled-burn benefits! Although scientists now recognize that fire is essential to many ecosystems, the ecological and political issues of managing wildfire continue to be vexing. Mapping Wildfire Hazards and Risks offers multiple perspectives on using a Geographic Information System (GIS) for more effective wildfire management. This innovative technology is the ideal tool to organize and display all the information available, so authorities can make informed judgments based on all the facts. Because the authors are not merely theorizing but discussing the GIS they are actually building and using, Mapping Wildfire Hazards and Risks offers practical ideas and perspectives, including: specific information on the modeling approach and kinds of data utilized valuable discussions of the social and environmental factors included in the model techniques for predicting the effects of wildfire on neighborhoods, soil erosion, sedimentation, and air quality predictions of long-term ecosystem recovery given wildfires of different sizes and intensities maps, charts, tables, and formulas to make the process of building a GIS understandable and accessible Mapping Wildfire Hazards and Risks is a compilation of the ideas of federal and state agencies, universities, and non-governmental organizations on how to rank and prioritize forested watershed areas that are in need of prescribed fire. This book provides the essential information for deciding how to set priorities for wildfire management that might reduce risks or lower future damages.
Download or read book GIS Blazes a Trail in Fire Management written by Chris Ross and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models written by Joe H. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermels surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. To assist with transition to using the new fuel models, a fuel model selection guide, fuel model crosswalk, and set of fuel model photos are provided.
Download or read book Development of GIS based Methods for Modeling Fire Hazard written by Mohamed Mansour Elshabrawy and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildland fires are natural occurrences in the woodland landscape that play a vital ecological role in Canada's boreal forest region. However, they also endanger human life and can disrupt timber resources and other economic assets. Recently, wildfires have ravaged areas of British Columbia, Alberta, California, and other parts of North America, Europe, and Australia. Loss of human life, the economic repercussions in terms of suppression expenses and property damage have been staggering. Many of these fires have occurred near the wildland-urban interface, mostly natural regions increasingly subject to human development. As the population in these areas grows, there is a greater risk of economic impact and human loss. As a result, it is critical to provide an accurate classification of the green spaces as well as which areas pose the greatest risk of fire depending on the ignition sources found in the forested areas. Consequently, developing a fire risk assessment model can be used to effectively locate high risk areas/zones and form a foundational building block for conducting future research for fire prevention strategies or evacuation plans, and policy intervention. This model would also help in locating the low-risk areas/zones to be developed since they could add to the destructive consequences if ignored in the planning and expansion process. To develop an effective assessment model, this thesis has three main tasks. The first task is to provide a thorough review of existing literature, followed by background information that will help to build a contemporary, urban fire risk model. As a case study to form the basis of a fire risk model, this research uses anthropogenic, biologic, topographic, and climatic data from the City of Edmonton (CoE). This is then layered and mapped onto the City's geographic location using ArcGIS and Python scripting language and then combined with data obtained from large datasets. The datasets in this research are satellite imaginary, aerial LiDAR dataset, urban Primary Land and Vegetation Inventory (uPLVI), and Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) data, used to extract 12 variables that represent the fire risk assessment model. Fire risk assessment maps are subsequently generated by processing and analyzing all the datasets using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique. The output of this research effort is a fire risk model that identifies the locations with the highest risk of wildfire within the CoE. Secondly, this study forecasts the wildland fire risk for 2050 and 2080, given the climatic projections from IPCC RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathway). This analysis offers a better understanding of the forecasted climate change by highlighting transportation development and evacuation planning and integrating a multitude of data sources, including temperatures, precipitation, wind speed, and humidity levels. Results indicate that from 2021 to 2050, the fire risk may increase by almost 20%. Furthermore, the risk will increase by another 11% from 2050 to 2080 for the City of Edmonton. Finally, a comprehensive discussion that illustrates all the findings of the fire risk maps, current and forecasted, is presented. The fire risk map and the road map of the CoE are overlayed to facilitate insight into transportation development and evacuation planning. To help create a climate resilient municipality, an ecological vulnerability classification map is constructed to identify developable areas and areas that should remain under preservation. Since creating awareness for climate adaptation and zone resiliency is a shared goal among stakeholders, a brief discussion on the role of each stakeholder is provided. The discussion covers strategies for fire prevention and mitigation in high-risk areas/zones, as well as establishing several cornerstones for strategic planning and action to strengthen climate resilience and the transportation development foundation of urban communities.
