With the advancement in human technology the risk of natural and man induced catastrophes increased exponentially. One of most dangerous disaster is forest fire. The forest fire represents continuous threat to species of flora as well as fauna. This paper highlights the powerful feature of wireless sensors for forest fire detection. The sensor data is collected using Arduino development board a...

Assistant Fire Management Officer, Eldorado National Forest, Placerville, Calif.; Soil Scientist, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Glendora, Calif. Abstract: The use of prescribed fire in the chaparral could reduce the incidence and impacts of severe wildfires and enhance watershed resources. This paper describes the operatio...

Title of Document: FIREFIGHTING IN THE NEW ECONOMY: CHANGES IN SKILL AND THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY Brian W. Ward, Ph.D., 2010 Directed By: Dr. Bart Landry, Department of Sociology To better understand the shift in workers’ skills in the New Economy, a case study of professional firefighters (n=42) was conducted using semi-structured interviews to empirically examine skill change and the impact o...

In the subway station fires, the most immediate threat to passengers’ life is not the direct exposure to fire, but the smoke inhalation because it contains hot air and toxic gases. Theoretical analysis and CFD simulations are applied to analyze the various possible ventilation model and obtain the optimization of ventilation mode in the subway station fires. According to the structure character...

Neary, Daniel G. ; Ryan, Kevin C. ; DeBano, Leonard F., eds. 2005. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soi ls and water. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol.4. Ogden , UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 250 p. This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on...

This paper discusses the possibility of using multiple low-altitude, short endurance (LASE) Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) to cooperatively monitor a forest fire. The UAVs will individually track the fire’s perimeter by means of an on board infrared sensor. Using a decentralized cooperation scheme the UAV team will collect data and upload it to a base station. Simulation results are presented tha...

The paper presents an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), consisting of several aerial vehicles and a central station, for forest fire monitoring. Fire monitoring is defined as the computation in real-time of the evolution of the fire front shape and potentially other parameters related to the fire propagation, and is very important for forest fire fighting. The paper shows how an UAS can automatic...

9 In: Vance, Regina K.; Edminster, Carleton B.; Covington, W. Wallace; Blake, Julie A. comps. 2001. Ponderosa pine ecosystems restoration and conservation: steps toward stewardship; 2000 April 25–27; Flagstaff, AZ. Proceedings RMRS-P-22. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Merrill R. Kaufmann is a Research Forest Ecologist, Paula J. Fornwa...