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
18 Feb 2022	Understanding what happens when bushfires merge	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: The burning question	Resource	save (97.66 KB)	emergency management, fire, response
21 Dec 2020	Fire Australia Issue Four 2020	Resource	save (4.58 MB)	communication, fire, flood
12 Aug 2016	Estimation of forest litter-bed fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Resource	save (242.06 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
29 Jun 2017	The detection and surveillance of active fire using Himawari-8	Resource	save (9.01 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	QFES response to the 2018 fires	Resource	save (2.24 MB)	fire, fire impacts
01 Jun 2020	Q&A with A/Prof Phil Zylstra - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the science of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
08 Sep 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource	save (1.7 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
30 Jun 2017	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning	Resource	save (1.72 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
07 Aug 2014	Community Members' Responses to Bushfire Threat	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	communities, decision making, fire
08 May 2015	Fighting Fires while Fighting Fatigue Poster	Resource	save (210.36 KB)	fire, response
24 Oct 2016	Disaster landscape attribution, active fire detection and hazard mapping	Resource	save (1.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
18 Sep 2018	Factors contributing to firefighters' mental health and wellbeing	Resource	save (899.79 KB)	emergency management, fire
04 Dec 2014	Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Resource	save (610.43 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
19 Apr 2018	Three Minute Thesis: Sprinkler systems to improve the bushfire resilience of buildings	Resource	save (791.13 KB)	fire, fire impacts
03 Jul 2015	Northern Satellite based Curing and Fuels	Resource	save (2.27 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
30 Nov 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016-17: November update	Resource	save (951.14 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
19 Sep 2018	A new soil dryness product for fire prediction applications	Resource	save (1.97 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
29 Jun 2018	Indigenous cultures in the north	Resource	save (954.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
18 Aug 2015	Disaster Landscape Attribution: from the Ground to Space: Validation of TET-1 and HIMAWARI-8 for Active Fire Detection	Resource	save (488.84 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
22 Feb 2019	Ten years on, there is a bit of complacency in all of us	Resource		communication, fire, land management
01 Dec 2020	PHOENIX RapidFire	Resource		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
24 Apr 2015	Bushfire risk perception: a study of the perceived vulnerability of domestic architecture in bushfire prone areas 2	Resource	save (412.98 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
07 Jul 2016	Kimberley grasslands curing	Resource	save (1.66 MB)	fire, land management, Northern Australia
29 Jun 2017	Simulated rate-of-spread of a grassfire propagating under a tree canopy	Resource	save (1.33 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
27 Aug 2019	The Australian Fire Danger Rating System	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
23 Nov 2018	Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Resource	save (5.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts
06 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 6 May 2020 - The thing about hazard reduction: why is it so difficult and divisive?	Resource	save (183.43 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
21 Mar 2014	Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	fire, modelling, prescribed burning
31 Oct 2017	Mapping the fire landscape: active fire surveillance and fuel hazard assessments	Resource	save (869.85 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
15 May 2019	Black Saturday bushfires: counting the cost	Resource		communities, economics, fire
30 Aug 2016	"I’m going to be frightened out of my wits": Insights on psychological preparedness from the Sampson Flat fire - Danielle Every	Resource	save (970.63 KB)	communication, communities, fire
09 Apr 2019	Coexisting with combustion: the future of bushfire management	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
14 Jul 2020	Prescribed Burning Atlas launch - webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, land management, prescribed burning
27 Oct 2014	Environmental thresholds for dynamic fire propagation	Resource		fire, propagation
19 Sep 2018	Collaboration with women caring for country on Australia’s frontier	Resource	save (6.16 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, local knowledge
02 Oct 2018	Launch of the Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2018	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
17 Apr 2020	Submission NSW Independent Bushfire review	Resource	save (1.59 MB)	fire, fire severity
07 Sep 2017	A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Resource	save (1.36 MB)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
29 Jun 2018	NAFI - map of North Australia fire history	Resource	save (1.37 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands