Forests are rich containment of resources and they play a vital role in preserving and maintaining the environment. The major hazard of the forests is forest fire as the consequence of the forest fire is catastrophic in nature. Hence it is of great importance that forest fire occurrence must be detected and extinguished before the fire spreads and destroys the resources. A lot of detection mech...

In this paper, we analyzed the influence of time required to begin coping behaviors of managers in chemical terrorism. In order to calculate the damage of chemical attacks in a major rail station, our network model-based pedestrian simulator was applied with hazard prediction systems of indoor gas diffusion. Our analysis was used for enlightening the managers of the rail station in a tabletop e...

The ecological impacts of wildland fire-suppression activities can be significant and may surpass the impacts of the fire itself. A recent paradigm shift from fire control to fire management has resulted in increased attention to minimizing the negative effects of suppression. While the philosophy behind minimumimpact suppression tactics has provided a good first step in this direction, increas...

2Research Hydrologists and Computer Specialist, respectively, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Arcata, California. Abstract: A simple Monte Carlo simulation evaluated the effect of several fire management strategies on soil slip erosion and wildfires. The current condition was compared to (1) a very intensive fuelbreak system...

Real-time fire detection, alerting and suppression system detects the presence of fire in indoor scenarios by recording the video inside the room via surveillance camera installed. This system introduces an image processing technique through video surveillance to detect the fire using different experts by combining three classifiers based on color, shape and motion of the fire. This detection s...

Forest fires can be fatal threats. Motivated by the need to detect fire early and locate forest fires clearly, in this paper, we propose a paradigm called the forest fire monitoring paradigm (FFMP). The purpose of the FFMP is for forest fire early detection and locating based on mixed wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Different from pure static and mobile WSNs, mixed WSNs are composed of both mo...

González-Cabán, Armando. 2009. Proceedings of the third international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: common problems and approaches. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-227 (English). Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 395 p. These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies ...

We combine a scenario-based, standard-response optimizationmodel with stochastic simulation to improve the efficiency of resource deployment for initial attack on wildland fires in three planning units in California. The optimization model minimizes the expected number of fires that do not receive a standard response — defined as the number of resources by type that must arrive at the fire with...