Key topics

fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Using Digital Earth Australia Waterbodies to support aerial firefighting	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
	Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
	Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
	Recirculation regions downstream of a canopy on a hill	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, land management, planning
	Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
	Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
	A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
	Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
	Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
	Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
	A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	A comparison of the performance of Australian Standard smoke alarms in real fire tests when compared to standards-compliant devices from other jurisdictions	Project		fire, risk analysis, warnings
	Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
	Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
	Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers	Biblio		communication, fire, recovery
	Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
	Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
	How do wet forests burn? : Fuels and fire danger in the world’s tallest flowering forest	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
	Multi-scaled calibration of high-resolution burnt area and fire severity mapping - workshop report	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
	We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia	Biblio	save (9.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts
	Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
	Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
	Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings
	Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
	Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Biblio	save (22.24 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
	Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
	Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
	A comparison of terrestrial and UAS sensors for measuring fuel hazard in a dry sclerophyll forest	Biblio	save (5.54 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
	Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia	Biblio	save (753.84 KB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
	Mesoscale features related to the Blue Mountains fires of 17 October 2013 revealed by high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modelling	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
	Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
	Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
	Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
11 Feb 2014	Summer fires 2013-14	News		fire
19 Mar 2014	Scientific diversity and uncertainty - bushfire and flood risk mitigation	Resource	save (241.15 KB)	fire, flood, risk management
21 Mar 2014	Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, modelling, prescribed burning
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
08 May 2014	Research to Drive Change	News		fire