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
Evaluation and calibration of a land surface based soil moisture for fire danger ratings	Biblio	save (872.28 KB)	fire, soil moisture
A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (292.86 KB)	fire, planning
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Assessing Metrics for Estimating Fire Induced Change in the Forest Understorey Structure Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning	Biblio	save (9.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Sensitivity of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and its application to environmental data	Project		fire
Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (641.54 KB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Risks and opportunities for sustainable savanna fire management	Biblio	save (2.07 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Simulation of flows through canopies with varying atmospheric stability	Biblio	save (739.35 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Biblio	save (538.96 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Continental-scale prediction of live fuel moisture content using soil moisture information	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Effects of Sydney coastal dry sclerophyll forest litter on fuels and fire behaviour in Hornsby shire	Biblio	save (2.29 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project		communication, communities, fire
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project		economics, fire
Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, risk management
Identification and quantitative analysis of smoldering and flaming combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, modelling, propagation
Predicting merging fire behaviour in Planned Burning	Biblio		fire, fire severity, remote sensing
Deriving comprehensive forest structure information from mobile laser scanning observations using automated point cloud classification	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
Examining bushfire policy in action: Preparedness and behaviour in the 2009 Black Saturday fires	Biblio	save (438.46 KB), save (513.82 KB)	communities, fire, policy
The Theory/Practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
Large-eddy simulations of pyro-convection and its sensitivity to mositure	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour - final project report	Biblio	save (3.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
A multilevel approach to fire severity using remote sensing, environmental factors and plant ecology	Project		fire, fire impacts, land management
Walking together: a decolonising experiment in bushfire management on Dja Dja Wurrung country	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical and Subtropical Australia	Biblio	save (7.08 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: development of a reliable data collection methodology	Biblio		fire, fire weather, propagation
The effect of firefighter-delivered fire safety education on young people who misuse fire	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards	Biblio		fire, response, risk management
Evaluation of daily soil moisture deficit used in Australian forest fire danger rating system	Biblio	save (2.64 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project		fire, hydrology
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project		fire, fire impacts
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
Cultural burning and public sector practice in the Australian Capital Territory	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project		fire, mitigation, planning
Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
The Effects of Fire-Plume Dynamics on the Lateral and Longitudinal Spread of Long-Range Spotting Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, modelling