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Integral to the reproductive processes of the biota of several forest, shrub, and grassland biome-types, wildfire ignites some 3,400,000km2 of Earth’s vegetated surface annually. Though a highly complex phenomena coupled with not one, but... more
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      Climate Change AdaptationUrban PlanningHistory Of LondonFire History
An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
The parameter terms (second column) for log (Aerial shrub cover + 1) × scale and log (Aerial tree cover + 1) × scale were incorrectly given positive rather than negative values. The correct values are: log (Aerial shrub cover + 1) × scale... more
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      Remote SensingMeteorologyModelingEcology
The number of large fires increased in the 1970s in the Valencia region (eastern Spain), as in most northern Mediterranean countries, owing to the fuel accumulation that affected large areas as a consequence of an intensive land... more
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      Remote SensingEcologyWildland FireSpatial Distribution
Daily weather data (since 1939) from four localities in the south-eastern, coastal part of the Cape Floral Kingdom ('south-eastern-CFK') were used to calculate daily fire danger indices (FDIs). Cloud-to-ground lightning strike... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Despite evident advances in knowledge and understanding concerning the application of prescribed burning for delivering benefits in wildfire control and a variety of sociocultural, economic and environmental outcomes, the practical... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Safety is typically talked about in a context of the absence of injury. The field of resilience engineering has been advocating that we think about safety differently, by taking a systems view and begin to see how people create safety in... more
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      Wildland FirePsychological SafetyOccupational health and safetyHuman Performance
In this paper, the architecture and the application of a system designed for the assessment of the distribution of dynamic wildland fire risk over the whole Italian territory are presented. Such an assessment takes place on the basis of... more
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      ForecastingWildland FireRisk assessmentMultidisciplinary
A series of short (200-page) regional surveys of the American fire scene - the color commentary to the narrative in Between Two Fires.
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      Fire HistoryWildland Fire
Vegetation cover is a heterogeneous medium composed of different kinds of fuels and non-combustible parts. Some properties of real fires arise from this heterogeneity. Creating heterogeneous fuel areas may be useful both in land... more
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      BehaviorRiskEcologyWildland Fire
This paper describes the development of a decision support system (DSS) for prevention planning and emergency management of forest fire events that incorporates weather data management, a geographical data viewer, a priori danger... more
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      Remote SensingData ManagementWildland FireRisk Management
Mastication of woody shrubs is used increasingly as a management option to reduce fire risk at the wildland-urban interface. Whether the resulting mulch layer leads to extreme soil heating, if burned, is unknown. We measured temperature... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
The United States’ National Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy aims to achieve greater social and ecological resilience to wildfire. It also raises the question: cohesive for whom and for what purpose? In this article, we address the... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Smoke pollution from wildfires can adversely affect human health, and there is uncertainty about the amount of smoke pollution caused by prescribed v. wildfires, a problem demanding a landscape perspective given that air quality... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
This is a review of the most important work in wildland fire mathematical modelling which has been carried out at different research centres around the world from the beginning of the 1940s to the present. A generic classification is... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringCombustionWildland Fire
The feasibility and fundamentals of forest fire detection by smoke sensing with single-wavelength lidar are discussed with reference to results of 532-nm lidar measurements of smoke plumes from experimental forest fires in Portugal within... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForest fireForestry Sciences
Five methods for the evaluation of fire danger, based on meteorological factors, were tested using statistical data for daily number of fires and burned area from six different regions in France, Italy and Portugal, for a period of 39... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Apart from voice services, data made its foray in cellular networks with 2.5G networks. Today, with 3G network already in place, the data requirements of mobile subscribers is very high. With the increasing demand for mobile internet and... more
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      Nature and Wildlife FilmsWildland FireTeaching with FilmWi-Fi
Norm theory offers a paradigm for understanding why the public judges management actions acceptable or unacceptable. This study assesses normative beliefs about acceptable wildland fire management. The acceptability of three fire... more
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      Air QualityOutdoor RecreationWildland FireFire Management
This study examines the degree to which the use of the Incident Command System (ICS) influenced the performance of Texas emergency operations centers (EOCs) during Hurricane Rita. Staff in evacuation, transition, and host county EOCs... more
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      Wildland FireStatistical SignificanceSocial ServicesPublic health systems and services research
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel... more
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      Remote SensingMeteorologyModelingEcology
Forest ecosystems in the western United States evolved over many millennia in response to disturbances such as wildfires. Land use and management practices have altered these ecosystems, however, including fire regimes in some areas.... more
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      Conservation BiologyConservationWater qualityExotic Species
The use of spatially explicit fire spread models to assess fire propagation and behaviour has several applications for fire management and research. We used the FARSITE simulator to predict the spread of a set of wildfires that occurred... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
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      ManagementSafety EngineeringEmergency MedicinePublic Administration
Wildfire hazard abatement is one of the major reasons to use prescribed burning. Computer simulation, case studies, and analysis of the fire regime in the presence of active prescribed burning programs in forest and shrubland generally... more
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      Conservation BiologyEcologyWildland FireFire Management
Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many largescale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied.... more
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      Remote SensingMeteorologyModelingEcology
Since the beginning of the 1930s research has been directed towards improving the effectiveness of water as a forest fire extinguishing agent. Throughout this time various chemical substances have been added to the water, and this is... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
The increasing extent of wildfires has prompted investigation into alternative fire management approaches to complement the traditional strategies of fire suppression and fuels manipulation. Wildfire prevention through ignition reduction... more
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      Remote SensingMeteorologyModelingEcology
Evolutionary and paleoecological studies suggest that fires are natural in the Mediterranean basin. However, the important increase in the number of fires and area burned during the 20th century has created the perception that fires are... more
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      EcologyWildland FireWildfireOak
Ecological risk assessments typically are organized using the processes of planning (a discussion among managers, stakeholders, and analysts to clarify ecosystem management goals and assessment scope) and problem formulation (evaluation... more
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      Wildland FireRisk assessmentSystems IntegrationBiological Sciences
This paper reports results from a study of the flame characteristics of 22 wind-aided pine litter fires in a laboratory wind tunnel and 32 field fires in southern rough and litter-grass fuels. Flame characteristic and fire behaviour data... more
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      Remote SensingMeteorologyModelingEcology
Oxidized polyacrylonitrile (OPAN) fiber, such as Zoltek OX™ fiber, is designed for cost-effective, flame and heat resistant solutions in textile, industrial, aircraft, automotive and battery markets. The performance features of oxidized... more
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      Renewable EnergyEnergyFire EcologyWelding Technology
Strategies, models, and algorithms facilitating such models are explored to provide transportation network managers and planners with more flexibility under uncertainty. Network design problems with non-stationary stochastic OD demand are... more
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      Real OptionsNetwork SecurityDisaster risk managementRadial Basis Function
There has been considerable interest in the recent literature regarding the assessment of post-fire effects on forested areas within the North American boreal forest. Assessing the physical and ecological effects of fire in boreal forests... more
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      Land managementEcologyWildland FireSatellite remote sensing
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In this conceptual article, the authors explore the possibilities of another approach to examining the human dimensions of wildland fire. They argue that our understanding of this issue could be enhanced by considering a cultural studies... more
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      Cultural StudiesWildland FireMultidisciplinarySocial Experiment
Old growth in the frequent-fire conifer forests of the western United States, such as those containing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Jeffrey pine ( P. jeffreyi), giant sequoia (Sequioa giganteum) and other species, has undergone major... more
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      Climate ChangeExotic SpeciesWildland FirePrescribed Fire
In the majority of US political settings wildland fire is still discussed as a negative force. Lacking from current wildfire discussions are estimates of the spatial extent of fire and their resultant emissions before the influences of... more
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      Air QualityCarbonFire EcologyForest Ecology And Management
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      Wildland FireSustainable forestryCase StudyNatural Regeneration
Please cite this article in press as: Chuvieco, E., et al., Development of a framework for fire risk assessment using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies.
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      Air QualityRemote SensingHuman FactorsWildland Fire
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      Wildland FireWildland Fires
In many coniferous forests of the western United States, wildland fuel accumulation and projected climate conditions increase the likelihood that fires will become larger and more intense. Fuels treatments and prescribed fire are widely... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
National parks in western Canada experience wildland fire events at differing frequencies, intensities, and burn severities. These episodic disturbances have varying implications for various biotic and abiotic processes and patterns. To... more
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      AlgorithmsRemote SensingFire EcologyPrediction
An understanding of the environmental effects of the use of wildland fire retardant is needed to provide informed decision-making regarding forest management. We compiled data from all post-fire surface water monitoring programs where the... more
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      Decision MakingPublic DomainCalciumWildland Fire
Forest thinning and prescribed fires are practices used by managers to address concerns over ecosystem degradation and severe wildland fire potential in dry forests. There is some debate, however, about treatment effectiveness in meeting... more
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      ForestryRestoration EcologyForest Ecology And ManagementWildland Fire
Appropriate use of satellite data in predicting >1 year post-fire effects requires remote measurement of surface properties that can be mechanistically related to ground measures of post-fire condition. The present study of burned... more
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      Remote SensingEcologyWildland FireForestry Sciences
In the California Sierra Nevada region, increased fire activity over the last 50 years has only occurred in the higher-elevation forests on US Forest Service (USFS) lands, and is not characteristic of the lower-elevation grasslands,... more
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      EcologyWildland FireForestry SciencesENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Every year tens of millions of hectares of forests, woodlands, and grasslands burn globally. Some are burned intentionally for land conversion, pasture renewal or hazard reduction, or wildlife habitat improvement, but most are burned by... more
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      Wildland FireSoil RespirationFossil FuelsWildfire
Wildland fire occurrence and behavior are complex phenomena involving essentially fuel (vegetation), topography, and weather. Fire managers around the world use a variety of systems to track and predict fire danger and fire behavior, at... more
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      Wildland FireAir pollutionTemporal ResolutionFire Management
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      Criminal JusticeFire and Emergency ServicesWildland FireFire Protection