BACKGROUND An approach to predict fire growth in an operational setting, with the potential to be used as a decision-support tool for fire management, is described and evaluated. The operational use of fire behaviour models has mostly followed a deterministic approach, however, the uncertainty associated with model predictions needs to be quantified and included in wildfire planning and decisio...

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The Farsite distributed file system provides availability by replicating each file onto multiple desktop computers. Since this replication consumes significant storage space, it is important to reclaim used space where possible. Measurement of over 500 desktop file systems shows that nearly half of all consumed space is occupied by duplicate files. We present a mechanism to reclaim space from t...

Contemporary research has shown that remote sensing techniques can be used for estimating live fuel moisture content (FMC) from space. These remote sensing based live FMC measurements must conform to some accuracy requirements to be of any practical use in fire behavior predictions. This paper thus investigates the potential errors in live FMC estimations using two simple established techniques...

Server less distributed computing has received significant attention from both the business and the investigate society. Among the most popular applications are the wide-area network file systems, exemplified by CFS, Farsite, and Ocean Store. These file systems store files on a large collection of untrusted nodes that form an overlay network. They use cryptographic techniques to maintain file c...

DOROTHY ALBRIGHT Fire Response GIS Application Geographic information system (GIS) support for the Incident Command System (ICS) has been evolving over the past several years. The U.S. Forest Service and Firefighting Resources of California Organized for Potential Emergencies (FIRESCOPE) are spearheading an effort to create a standard approach to the problem. The result is an application design...

1. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jacob LaCroix attended The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, WI were he got a BS degree studying Wildlife Management. He later attended Michigan Technological University, in Houghton, MI were he got an MS Degree in Ecology. His thesis was on stream ecology. He currently attends the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, working on his PhD degree, studying Landscape Ec...

The present study investigates the effect of climatic parameters, such as air relative humidity and wind speed, on fire spread propagation indexes in Malekroud Forest, Iran using FARSITE simulator based Rothermel’s original equation. Standard fuel models are used to calibrate vegetation cover. Sorensen (SC) kappa (κ) coefficients, well Overestimation Index (OI), estimate simulation’s accuracy. ...