Fire frequency and size are two important parameters describing fire characteristics. Exploring the spatial variation of fire characteristics and understanding the environmental controls are indispensable to fire prediction and sustainable forest landscape management. To illustrate the spatial variation of forest fire characteristics over China and to quantitatively determine the relative contr...

Forest fires could cause significant damages in environment, human society and economy. These possibilities lead forest fires to a worldwide issue. Furthermore, damages from forest fires give rise to secondary damage such as floods. Thus, a rapid analysis on forest fire should take effect. However, it is considerably dangerous to access to forest fire area and almost impossible to get the field...

according to reports of forest range and watershed management organization of iran, hundreds of forest fires take place in our country every year. due to destroying forest and grass land in different parts of iran, especially in zagross and alborz mountain, it is necessary to develop new methods to reduce fire effects in these places. there are many parameters that increase probability of fire ...

Because some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting, forest management is often considered as a disturbance having effects similar to those of natural disturbances. Although the analogy http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol2/iss2/art6/ (1 of 11) [9/5/2008 10:08:21 AM] Conservation Ecology: Variability in fire frequency and forest composition i...'s southeastern...

Fire-tower is effectively applied in forest fire prevention and commanding system, especially in fire monitor and position. After explaining the significance of scientific planning of fire-tower, this paper analyzes GIS`s functions in building forest fire prevention system. This paper uses case study method, which designs a model, fire tower planning and analysis, based on MapGIS platform. Afte...

With the expansion of the power grid, transmission lines across forests are increasing. Once forest fire occurs, it could threaten the transmission lines around or even cause them trip out. Therefore, studying the spread of forest fire is important. This paper presents a method based on Rothermel model and Huygens principle to analyze forest fire spread trend surrounding transmission line. Firs...

The present thesis deals with the inclusion of fire risk considerations into forest planning in Catalonia (North-East Spain). The first part of the thesis focused on the modeling the susceptibility of different kinds of forest to fire (Studies I, II, III and IV), and the second part on the inclusion of the acquired knowledge about fire risk into forest planning systems (Studies V and VI). The m...

Climate change affects the dynamic changes of forest fire. This paper aims to analyze the influence of climate on forest fire in Hunan province by using multiple linear regression and correlation analysis. The results showed that the average affected area of forest and forest loss caused by forest fire showed a significant linear relationship with climate and could be expressed by multiple regr...

The problem of forest fire initiation were carried out, including development of a mathematical model for description of heat and mass transfer processes at crown forest fire initiation, taking into account the mutual influence of differences strata of forest. Mathematical model of forest fire was based on an analysis of experimental data and using concept and methods from reactive media mechan...

Forest fires are a chief environmental concern, causing economical and ecological damage. The application of remote sensing is at present a significant method for forest fires monitoring, particularly in vast and remote areas. Different methods have been presented by the researchers for finding forest types and fire detection. In this study, we propose polygon segmentation for adaptive regional...