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
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project	fire, remote sensing
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project	fire, fire impacts
Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation	Project	decision making, fire
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Project	fire
Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Project	fire, modelling, propagation
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Probability of fire ignition and escalation	Project	fire, fuel reduction
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project	environments, fire, fire impacts
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
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project	fire, fire impacts, response
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project	fire, fire weather, soil moisture
Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project	fire, mitigation, policy
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project	fire, prescribed burning
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project	fire, fire impacts, planning
Risk communications in Victoria	Project	communication, communities, fire
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
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project	fire, modelling
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
Fighting fires and fatigue	Project	fire
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project	decision making, fire, governance
Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Parameterisation for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling	Project	fire, modelling
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project	communication, communities, fire
Fire surveillance and hazard mapping	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Social, economic, and environmental impacts of the 2012/13 Victorian fire season	Project	decision making, economics, fire
An investigation of the dynamics of fire-fire interactions using a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Project	fire, modelling
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project	fire, indigenous communities
Plume and air quality modelling	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project	communities, fire, resilience
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project	fire, infrastructure, resilience