Empirical-based models for predicting head-fire rate of spread in Australian fuel types

MG Cruz, JS Gould, ME Alexander, AL Sullivan… - Australian …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The knowledge of a free-burning fire's potential rate of spread is critical for safe and effective
bushfire control and use. A number of models for predicting the head-fire rate of spread in …

Cohesive fire management within an uncertain environment: A review of risk handling and decision support systems

AP Pacheco, J Claro, PM Fernandes… - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Wildfire management has been struggling in recent years with escalating devastation,
expenditures, and complexity. Given the copious factors involved and the complexity of their …

QUIC-fire: A fast-running simulation tool for prescribed fire planning

RR Linn, SL Goodrick, S Brambilla, MJ Brown… - … Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Coupled fire-atmospheric modeling tools are increasingly used to understand the complex
and dynamic behavior of wildland fires. Multiple research tools linking combustion to fluid …

Effects of fuel spatial distribution on wildland fire behaviour

AL Atchley, R Linn, A Jonko, C Hoffman… - … journal of wildland …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
The distribution of fuels is recognised as a key driver of wildland fire behaviour. However,
our understanding of how fuel density heterogeneity affects fire behaviour is limited because …

Fire behavior modeling for operational decision-making

A Cardil, S Monedero, G Schag, S de-Miguel… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Simulation frameworks are necessary to facilitate decision-making to many fire agencies. An
accurate estimation of fire behavior is required to analyze potential impact and risk. Applied …

A cloud-based framework for sensitivity analysis of natural hazard models

KC Ujjwal, S Garg, J Hilton, J Aryal - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Computational models for natural hazards usually require a large number of input
parameters that affect the model outcome in a complex manner. The sensitivity of the input …

[HTML][HTML] A hierarchical classification of wildland fire fuels for Australian vegetation types

MG Cruz, JS Gould, JJ Hollis, WL McCaw - Fire, 2018 - mdpi.com
Appropriate categorisation and description of living vegetation and dead biomass is
necessary to support the rising complexity of managing wildland fire and healthy …

Bayesian physics informed neural networks for data assimilation and spatio-temporal modelling of wildfires

JJ Dabrowski, DE Pagendam, J Hilton, C Sanderson… - Spatial Statistics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract We apply the Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) to the problem of wildfire fire-
front modelling. We use the PINN to solve the level-set equation, which is a partial …

Parameter estimation of fire propagation models using level set methods

A Alessandri, P Bagnerini, M Gaggero… - Applied Mathematical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The availability of wildland fire propagation models with parameters estimated in an
accurate way starting from measurements of fire fronts is crucial to predict the evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] RADAR-vegetation structural perpendicular index (R-VSPI) for the quantification of wildfire impact and post-fire vegetation recovery

A Chhabra, C Rüdiger, M Yebra, T Jagdhuber, J Hilton - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The precise information on fuel characteristics is essential for wildfire modelling and
management. Satellite remote sensing can provide accurate and timely measurements of …