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
Case study: use of remote sensing data to derive spatial and temporal explicit fuel accumulation curves across defence lands	Biblio	save (2.79 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
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
Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia	Biblio	save (3.97 MB)	fire, mitigation, prescribed burning
Where do we put our dollars? Economic analysis of different bushfire management options in Western Australia	Biblio	save (391.13 KB)	economics, emergency management, fire
Cardiovascular Risk Screening Volunteer Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (648.89 KB)	fire, response
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project		fire, infrastructure, resilience
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project		capability, fire, fire severity
How chief officers view success in fire policy and management	Biblio		fire, governance, policy
Cultural burning and public sector practice in the Australian Capital Territory	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
Children, bushfire and climate change	Biblio		child-centred, fire, resilience
Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire: a child-centred disaster risk reduction mechanism	Biblio	save (181.58 KB)	child-centred, fire
Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards	Biblio		fire, response, risk management
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Turbulent flow over transitionally rough surfaces with varying roughness densities	Biblio	save (527.34 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts – final project report	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Assessing the utility of the TET-1 hotspot detection and characterization algorithm for determining wildfire size and temperature	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Modelling wind direction distributions using a diagnostic model in the context of probabilistic fire spread prediction	Biblio	save (9.25 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
Fire Spread Across Fuel Types Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (450.6 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings
Emerging technologies for estimating fuel hazard	Biblio	save (2.85 MB)	capability, fire, remote sensing
Investigating surface and near-surface bushfire fuel attributes: a comparison between visual assessments and image-based point clouds	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires	Biblio		fire, organisational, preparedness
Comparison of soil wetness from multiple models over Australia with observations	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Disaster landscape attribution: fire surveillance and hazard mapping, data scaling and validation: Annual project report	Biblio	save (1.54 MB)	fire, land management, remote sensing
Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.52 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning – A historical review of two Australian planning systems	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	exposure, fire, infrastructure
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project		fire, flood, remote sensing
Linking local wildfire dynamics to pyroCB development - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (145.88 KB)	fire, modelling
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project		fire, modelling
Community preparedness and responses to the 2017 NSW bushfires	Biblio	save (561.7 KB)	communities, fire, fire impacts
Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
Kinetics of pyrolysis of litter materials from pine and eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, propagation