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
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
A multilevel approach to fire severity using remote sensing, environmental factors and plant ecology	Project	fire, fire impacts, land management
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Sensitivity of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and its application to environmental data	Project	fire
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: the impact on acute stress responses	Project	decision making, fire
Plume and air quality modelling	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project	fire, mitigation, policy
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Analysis of RapidEye imagery to map fire severity and ground truthing	Project	fire, risk analysis
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project	fire, hydrology
Improving decision support tools for conservation of fire-adapted ecosystems in southern Australia, through integrated simulation of reproductive ecology and landscape dynamics	Project	fire, modelling
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project	fire, fire impacts
The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project	fire, fire impacts, planning
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project	fire, remote sensing
Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation	Project	decision making, fire
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Savanna fire management, resources, methods and effectiveness	Project	fire, planning, risk management
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Project	fire
Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Project	fire, modelling, propagation
Probability of fire ignition and escalation	Project	fire, fuel reduction
A guide to develop bushfire case studies - a case study of cropland fires	Project	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near Esperance, WA	Project	coastal, fire, fire impacts
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project	economics, fire
Bushfire spatial data models and ignition data	Project	fire, modelling
Disaster in relation to attachment, loss, grief and recovery: the Marysville experience	Project	communities, fire, recovery
The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project	fire, mitigation, planning
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project	fire, prescribed burning
Mapping the area of Tathra to study, if Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR) along with prescribed burning can save houses (in future) at Tathra NSW	Project	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project	fire, fire weather, soil moisture
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project	fire, modelling, physics
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project	fire, modelling
Risk communications in Victoria	Project	communication, communities, fire
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project	fire, modelling
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project	fire, modelling, propagation
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Fighting fires and fatigue	Project	fire
Parameterisation for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling	Project	fire, modelling