U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Integrated Forest Science, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Forest Watershed Research, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC 28763, United States U.S. Department of Agricu...

Despite the huge resources invested in fire suppression, the impact of wildfires has considerably increased across the Mediterranean region since the second half of the 20th century. Modulating fire suppression efforts in mild weather conditions is an appealing but hotly-debated strategy to use unplanned fires and associated fuel reduction to create opportunities for suppression of large fires ...

Assessing areas affected by forest fires requires comprehensive studies covering a wide range of analyzes. From an economic standpoint, assessing the affected area in monetary terms is crucial. Determining the degree of loss in the value of natural resources, both those of a tangible and intangible nature, enables knowing the residual value remaining after a fire, i.e., it enables determining t...

Determining the specific mix of fire-fighting resources for a given fire is a necessary condition for identifying the minimum of the Cost Plus Net Value Change (C+NVC) function. Current wildland fire management models may not reliably do so. The problem of identifying the most efficient wildland fire organization is characterized mathematically using integer-programming techniques. This mathema...

Forest fires are time evolving disasters that consume environmental and financial resources, endangering the rescue units that try to mitigate them. As such, a simulator that can predict the fire propagation is essential to locate control systems, in order to reduce the loss of natural resources without risking the firefighters. This paper proposes a simulator based on discrete representation o...

Fire accidents often lead to tremendous losses and smoke has been reported be the main cause of these heavy casualties. Accordingly, movement can influence escape confinement is particular significant. Dynamics Simulator software (FDS) was utilized carry out complementary full scale numerical simulations fire accident in a subway station. Different measure prevention exhaust were adopted differ...

Electronic feeding stations (EFS) were developed to automate data collection of individual animals housed in a group environment. In order for scientists to use EFS, such as feed intake recording equipment (FIRE), in research, data recorded electronically cannot differ from data recorded on calibrated scales. The objectives of 2 studies were to determine if data recorded by 2 FIRE stations (FIR...