Forests play an important role for sustaining the natural environment of human living. Forest fires not only destroy natural environment and ecological equivalence, but also threaten security of life and wealth to people. This paper presents applications of Spatio-temporal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovering (STDMKD) for forest fire prevention. The special attention of the research is paid to...

many reports have indicated the medical importance of animal poisons in iran. the significance numbers of iranians are injured from high endemic to sporadic, by venomous snakes, scorpions, wasps, bees, fire and velvet ants, spiders and backswimmer bugs, so their nuisance prevention is an important task.

A steadily increasing number of fires and the high intensity of fire seasons every 4 to 5 years have marked the last two decades in Spain. A generalized first attack system supported by aircraft and new technologies has achieved a main goal: more than 70 percent of fires burn less than 1 ha. Nevertheless, fuel accumulations on large areas because of rural land abandonment have increased the ris...

Effective wildfire suppression and diminished use of prescribed burning in forestry has clearly eliminated the role of fire in Finnish forest ecosystems as compared to pristine stands. The reintroduction of fire back to nature has therefore been suggested in various instructions, forest certification and forest conservation programmes. At the same time it is recognized that possible climate cha...