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
Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, modelling
"I think I'm going to be frightened out of my wits" psychological preparedness and vulnerability: insights from the Sampson Flat fire	Biblio	save (196.54 KB)	fire, resilience, vulnerability
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.24 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Performance of fire detection algorithms using himawari-8	Biblio	save (1.27 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire weather
Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment factor for wildfire simulations	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
January 2020 NSW bushfires study	Biblio	save (579.61 KB)	fire, fire impacts, response
Bushfire spatial data models and ignition data	Project		fire, modelling
Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Modelling emissions from prescribed burning using FULLCAM	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Biblio	save (805.45 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
A radiative transfer model-based method for the estimation of grassland aboveground biomass	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project		communication, fire, fire impacts
Cost effectiveness of fire management strategies in southern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, organisational
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
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
Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia’s 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A broader perspective	Biblio	save (623.99 KB)	climate change, fire, fire severity
A comparison between TLS and UAS LiDAR to represent eucalypt crown fuel characteristics	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Should we leave now? Behavioral factors in evacuation under wildfire threat	Biblio		fire, modelling
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project		environments, fire, fire impacts
Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation	Biblio	save (1.35 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for 3D bushfire mapping	Project		fire, modelling, risk analysis
Determining threshold conditions for extreme bushfire behaviour annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Factors influencing householder self-evacuation in two Australian bushfires	Biblio	save (4.68 MB)	communication, fire, warnings
Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010	Biblio		fire, vulnerability
Physics-based simulation of short-range spotting in wildfires	Biblio	save (21 MB)	fire, mitigation, modelling
Simulated behaviour of wildland fire spreading through idealised heterogeneous fuels	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Implementation of a new algorithm resulting in improvements in accuracy and resolution of SEVIRI hotspot products	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project		fire, fire weather, soil moisture
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
Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, planning, scenario analysis
Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
The Stress of Firefighting Report	Biblio	save (620.18 KB)	fire, response
Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
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