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
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project	fire, fire weather
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project	decision making, exposure, fire
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project	fire, modelling, propagation
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Project	fire, remote sensing
Parameterisation for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling	Project	fire, modelling
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project	decision making, fire, governance
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas	Project	communities, fire, risk analysis
Savanna fire management, resources, methods and effectiveness	Project	fire, planning, risk management
Social values in bushfire management decision making	Project	decision making, economics, fire
Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Disaster in relation to attachment, loss, grief and recovery: the Marysville experience	Project	communities, fire, recovery
A guide to develop bushfire case studies - a case study of cropland fires	Project	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project	communication, fire, fire impacts
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near Esperance, WA	Project	coastal, fire, fire impacts
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project	economics, fire
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for 3D bushfire mapping	Project	fire, modelling, risk analysis
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: the impact on acute stress responses	Project	decision making, fire
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project	capability, fire, fire severity
The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project	fire, mitigation, planning
Locating gendered knowledge and practices in Aboriginal fire ecology	Project	fire, fire impacts, indigenous communities
Mapping the area of Tathra to study, if Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR) along with prescribed burning can save houses (in future) at Tathra NSW	Project	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Analysis of RapidEye imagery to map fire severity and ground truthing	Project	fire, risk analysis
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project	communities, fire, resilience
Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation	Project	decision making, fire
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project	fire, modelling
A comparison of the performance of Australian Standard smoke alarms in real fire tests when compared to standards-compliant devices from other jurisdictions	Project	fire, risk analysis, warnings
Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
The impacts of catastrophic wildfire on ecological interactions among regenerated vegetation, fungi and small foraging marsupials	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection	Project	fire
Fire spread prediction across fuel types	Project	fire, modelling, propagation
Probability of fire ignition and escalation	Project	fire, fuel reduction
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project	emergency management, fire, volunteering
Development of an integrated method to predict bushfire hazard	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
User interface platform for the Victorian historical fire weather gridded dataset	Project	fire, fire impacts
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project	fire, indigenous communities
Bushfire spatial data models and ignition data	Project	fire, modelling