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
A radiative transfer model-based method for the estimation of grassland aboveground biomass	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A guide to develop bushfire case studies - a case study of cropland fires	Project		fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Carbon loss from planned fires in southeastern Australian dry Eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
User interface platform for the Victorian historical fire weather gridded dataset	Project		fire, fire impacts
Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project		communication, fire, fire impacts
An Assessment of Pre- and Post Fire Near Surface Fuel Hazard in an Australian Dry Sclerophyll Forest Using Point Cloud Data Captured Using a Terrestrial Laser Scanner	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.12 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Estimating grassland curing with remotely sensed data	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire	Biblio	save (8 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near Esperance, WA	Project		coastal, fire, fire impacts
Simulating boundary-layer rolls with a numerical weather prediction model	Biblio		fire, modelling
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project		fire
Can air quality management drive sustainable fuels management at the temperate wildland–urban interface?	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Fuels3D - final project report	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for 3D bushfire mapping	Project		fire, modelling, risk analysis
Meteorological drivers of the eastern Victorian Black Summer (2019–2020) fires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, scenario analysis
Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.72 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
A Seasonal-Window Ensemble-Based Thresholding Technique Used to Detect Active Fires in Geostationary Remotely Sensed Data	Biblio		emergency management, fire, remote sensing
A systematic exploration of the potential for bushfire risk mitigation with prescribed burning	Biblio	save (776.62 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project		fire, prescribed burning
How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project		communities, fire, resilience
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
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Biblio	save (678.84 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Using a worldview lens to examine complex policy issues: a historical review of bushfire management in the South West of Australia	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design	Biblio	save (3.78 MB)	engineering, fire, resilience
How chief officers view success in fire policy and management	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project		capability, fire, fire severity
Turbulent flow over transitionally rough surfaces with varying roughness densities	Biblio	save (527.34 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Terrestrial Image-Based Point Clouds for Mapping Near-Ground Vegetation Structure: Potential and Limitations	Biblio	save (7.72 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Locating gendered knowledge and practices in Aboriginal fire ecology	Project		fire, fire impacts, indigenous communities
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
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project		fire, modelling
Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Experiences with the global impacts of climate change	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	climate change, fire, fire impacts
Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting