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.

Item	Type		Key Topics
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project		fire, fire weather, soil moisture
How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project		communities, fire, resilience
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Mapping and understanding bushfire and natural hazard vulnerability and risks at the institutional scale: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The Stress of Firefighting Report	Biblio	save (620.18 KB)	fire, response
A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design	Biblio	save (3.78 MB)	engineering, fire, resilience
Development of a predictive model for estimating forest surface fuel load in Australian eucalypt forests with LiDAR data	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
How chief officers view success in fire policy and management	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project		fire, fire impacts
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Turbulent flow over transitionally rough surfaces with varying roughness densities	Biblio	save (527.34 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Global vegetation gross primary production estimation using satellite-derived light-use efficiency and canopy conductance	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Terrestrial Image-Based Point Clouds for Mapping Near-Ground Vegetation Structure: Potential and Limitations	Biblio	save (7.72 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Evolution of an extreme Pyrocumulonimbus-driven wildfire event in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio	save (844.71 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Planning for Bushfires on the Rural-Urban Interface: An analysis of the correlations between house setbacks and house loss as evidence of house-to-house fire spread in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires	Project		engineering, fire, planning
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project		fire, prescribed burning
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Navigating scientific uncertainty in wildfire and flood risk mitigation: A qualitative review	Biblio	save (435.47 KB)	fire, flood, mitigation
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (2.4 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Biblio	save (3.91 MB)	communication, fire, modelling
Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010	Biblio		fire, vulnerability
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
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
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an operational tool for fuel hazard mapping?	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, remote sensing
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Defining the Preparatory Conditions in Support of Active Defence for Different Fire Danger Ratings	Biblio		communication, fire
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
Risk communications in Victoria	Project		communication, communities, fire
Evaluation of the feasibility and benefits of operational use of alternative satellite data in the Australian Flammability Monitoring System to ensure long-term data continuity	Biblio	save (790.91 KB)	fire, modelling, optimisation
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Fire spread across different fuel types: research and utilisation – final project report	Biblio	save (5.48 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Multi-scaled calibration of high-resolution burnt area and fire severity mapping - workshop report	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management