Wildfires are a significant safety risk to populations adjacent wildland areas, known as the wildland-urban interface (WUI). This paper introduces modelling platform called WUI-NITY. The is built on Unity3D game engine and simulates visualises human behaviour wildfire spread during an evacuation of WUI communities. purpose this enhance situational awareness responders residents scenarios by pro...

Recent studies suggest that manipulation of landscape patterns is the most preferred method to reduce susceptibility of landscape to fire spread. e evaluated the effects of landscape spatial pattern and spatial heterogeneity of fuel loading on surface fire spread using the FARSITE model n Chequamegon National Forest landscape, Wisconsin. Five forest management scenarios were developed to genera...

ASTRACT: The F ARSITE (Fire Area Simulator) is a fue growth model that spatially projects fue perimeters and behavior over complex landscapes. The model uses spatial data themes from a geographic information system (GIS) along with weather and wind data to propagate fue as a spreading wave front. The model runs on a personal computer under the WINDOWS operating environment. Version 1.0 of the F...

OF THESIS MODELING WIND IN COMPLEX TERRAIN FOR USE IN FIRE SPREAD PREDICTION Currently, no methods of predicting microscale, terrain influenced winds are available to fire managers. This study evaluated three methods of providing surface wind information to fire growth models. One was simply a uniform wind speed and direction, a method that has been traditionally used, and the other two types w...

We developed a methodology to evaluate the efficacy of fuel treatments by estimating their costs and potential costs/losses with and without treatments in the San Jacinto Ranger District of the San Bernardino National Forest, California. This district is a typical southern California forest complex containing a large amount of high-valued real estate. We chose four sites to represent different ...

Wildfire behavior can be modified by altering the quantity, structure, and arrangement of fuel (flammable vegetation) by silvicultural treatments such as forest thinning and prescribed burning. The type and arrangement (including landscape location) of treated areas have been demonstrated to influence wildfire behavior. This study analyzes the response of several key fire behavior variables to ...

Fire suppression has increased fuel loads and fuel continuity in mixed-conifer ecosystems, resulting in forest structures that are vulnerable to catastrophic fire. This paper models fire behaviour in a mixed-conifer forest and investigates how silvicultural and fuels treatments affect potential fire behaviour. The computer program FARSITE was used to spatially and temporally model fire growth a...

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network of usually a large number of small sensor nodes that are wirelessly connected to each other in order to remotely monitor an environment or phenomena. Sensor nodes use the data aggregation method as an effective tool for estimating the desired parameters accurately and trustfully. In this paper, we have applied a cellularautomata-like algorithm and an...