Download or read book Wildfire Threat Analysis and GIS written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wildfire Threat Analysis Methodology Report written by Iain Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 GIS based Wildland Fire Risk Analysis written by Andreas Bachmann and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis written by Pamela S. Showalter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and global po- tioning systems. Our focus is on urban areas, broadly de ned in order to encompass rapidly growing and densely populated areas that may not be considered “urban” in the conventional sense. The material presented here is also unabashedly applied – our goal is to provide GIT tools to those seeking more ef cient ways to respond to, recover from, mitigate, prevent, and/or model hazard and disaster events in urban settings. Therefore, this book was created not only with our colleagues in the academic world in mind, but also for hazards professionals and practitioners. We also believe graduate students will nd the material presented here of interest, as may upper division undergraduate students.

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.

Download or read book A GIS Approach to Determine Wildfire Risk written by Meckenzie Helmandollar-Powell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 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 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 Wildland Fire Danger Estimation and Mapping written by Emilio Chuvieco and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a wide range of techniques for extracting information from satellite remote sensing images in forest fire danger assessment. It covers the main concepts involved in fire danger rating, and analyses the inputs derived from remotely sensed data for mapping fire danger at both the local and global scale. The questions addressed concern the estimation of fuel moisture content, the description of fuel structural properties, the estimation of meteorological danger indices, the analysis of human factors associated with fire ignition, and the integration of different risk factors in a geographic information system for fire danger management.

Download or read book Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems written by Emilio Chuvieco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every summer, following the seasonal drought. As a result of changes in traditional land use practices, and the impact of recent climate warming, fires have more negative impacts in the last years, threatening lives, socio-economic and ecological values. The book describes the ecological context of fires in the Mediterranean ecosystems, and provides methods to observe fire danger conditions and fire impacts using Earth Observation and Geographic Information System technologies.

Download or read book Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires written by Emilio Chuvieco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a systematic review of the different applications for remote sensing and geographical information system techniques in research and management of forest fires. The authors have been involved in this field of research for several years. The book also benefits from data generated within the Megafires project, founded under the DG-XII of the European Union. A clear integration of research and experience is provided. New data gathered from fires affecting European countries between 1991 and 1997 are included as well as satellite images and auxiliary cartographic information. Geographic Information System files have been included in the attached CD-ROM depicting land cover, elevation, Koeppen classification climates and NOAA-AVHRR data of all European Mediterranean Europe at 1 sq km resolution. All these files are in Idrisi format and can be easily accessed from any GIS program. An Idrisi viewer has also been included in the CD-ROM.

Download or read book Practical Decision Making written by Enrique Mu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background. It provides a quick and intuitive understanding of the methodology using spreadsheet examples and explains in a step-by-step fashion how to use Super Decisions, a freely available software developed by the Creative Decisions Foundations. The book is intended to be a resource for decision makers with little or no exposure to the field of Operations Research (OR); however, the book can be used as a very gentle introduction to the AHP methodology and/or as an AHP hands-on supplement for standard OR textbooks. AHP is an intuitive and mathematically simple methodology in the field of multi-criteria decision making. Because of this, most AHP books assume the reader has basic OR mathematical background. However, AHP simplicity suggests that decision makers from all disciplines can take advantage of the methodology without struggling with the mathematics behind it. To fulfill this need, this book delivers a quick and practical understanding of the method that can be useful for corporate executives.

Download or read book Forest Fire Risk Prediction written by Rachael Nolan and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, fire regimes are being altered by changing climatic conditions and land use changes. This has the potential to drive species extinctions and cause ecosystem state changes, with a range of consequences for ecosystem services. Accurate prediction of the risk of forest fires over short timescales (weeks or months) is required for land managers to target suppression resources in order to protect people, property, and infrastructure, as well as fire-sensitive ecosystems. Over longer timescales, prediction of changes in forest fire regimes is required to model the effect of wildfires on the terrestrial carbon cycle and subsequent feedbacks into the climate system. This was the motivation to publish this book, which is focused on quantifying and modelling the risk factors of forest fires. More specifically, the chapters in this book address four topics: (i) the use of fire danger metrics and other approaches to understand variation in wildfire activity; (ii) understanding changes in the flammability of live fuel; (iii) modeling dead fuel moisture content; and (iv) estimations of emission factors. The book will be of broad relevance to scientists and managers working with fire in different forest ecosystems globally.

Download or read book A Web GIS Portal for Modeling Wildfire Spread in Near Realtime and Assessing Associated Risk written by Bishrant Adhikari and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A web GIS portal for simulating wildfire spread in near real-time and assessing associated risk is presented in this thesis. A near real-time wildfire spread model was developed to assess risk due to possible wildfire spread. A Wildfire Risk Assessment (WRA) model was developed using several Monte-Carlo based wildfire spread simulations. The WRA model also considered uncertainties in weather information and fuel moisture forecasts that might affect the wildfire spread behavior. A comparison of the predicted wildfire perimeter and relative risk level with the observed wildfire data showed a reasonable degree of agreement. To increase the computational performance of the WRA model, big-data based distributed computing platform based on Apache Spark was used. Such implementation improved the computational performance by at least 500% than the traditional in-memory based computation approach. A public domain WRA portal for Wyoming known as the Wyoming Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (WYWRAP) was developed to provide wildfire simulation and risk assessment functionality. A user experience study conducted to determine the usability of WYWRAP in assessing wildfire risk showed that the respondents of the survey appreciated the user-friendly map interface and responsive controls of WYWRAP. Development of WYWRAP may improve near real-time decision-making processes such as evacuation and wildfire suppression planning. Reduction of computation time and manual data processing might make it easier for the residents of Wyoming to understand risk due to wildfires in near-real time. In addition to raising public awareness, WYWRAP can also inform its users about possible risk reduction actions.

Download or read book Natech Risk Assessment and Management written by Elisabeth Krausmann and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natech Risk Assessment and Management: Reducing the Risk of Natural-Hazard Impact on Hazardous Installations covers the entire spectrum of issues pertinent to Natech risk assessment and management. After a thorough introduction of the topic that includes definitions of terms, authors Krausmann, Cruz, and Salzano discuss various examples of international frameworks and provide a detailed view of the implementation of Natech Risk Management in the EU and OECD. There is a dedicated chapter on natural-hazard prediction and measurement from an engineering perspective, as well as a consideration of the impact of climate change on Natech risk. The authors also discuss selected Natech accidents, including recent examples, and provide specific ‘lessons learned’ from each, as well as an analysis of all essential elements of Natech risk assessment, such as plant layout, substance hazards, and equipment vulnerability. The final section of the book is dedicated to the reduction of Natech risk, including structural and organizational prevention and mitigation measures, as well as early warning issues and emergency foreword planning. Teaches chemical engineers and safety managers how to safeguard chemical processing plants and pipelines against natural disasters Includes international regulations and explains how to conduct a natural hazards risk assessment, both of which are supported by examples and case studies Discusses a broad range of hazards and the multidisciplinary aspects of risk assessment in a detailed and accessible style

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.