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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
25 Nov 2020	Satellites to help show when the bush is ready to burn	Resource		fire, remote sensing, vulnerability
18 Aug 2015	Towards Culturally Appropriate Fire Management in the Waanyi and Garawa Lands	Resource	save (147.24 KB)	fire, governance, indigenous communities
29 Jun 2018	Savanna monitoring and reporting framework	Resource	save (1.84 MB)	fire, fire severity, Northern Australia
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Adam Leavesley presentation	Resource	save (4.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (413.6 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: The burning question	Resource	save (97.66 KB)	emergency management, fire, response
29 Jun 2017	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain for bushfire modelling	Resource	save (2.33 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
16 Dec 2020	AFAC Webinar 'Where are we going with soil moisture' 2020	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, land management
18 Aug 2015	Meteorology of the Sampson Flat Fire in January 2015	Resource	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather
23 Nov 2018	Fire spread prediction across fuel types by physics-based modelling	Resource	save (2.02 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
29 Jun 2017	The detection and surveillance of active fire using Himawari-8	Resource	save (9.01 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
30 Aug 2016	The social life of science: tales from Victoria and the Northern Territory - Jessica Weir	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	decision making, fire, policy
27 Aug 2019	Shifts to the new abnormal: riding the waves of climate change	Resource	save (1.16 MB)	decision making, fire
17 Jun 2020	Q&A with Dr Valerie Densmore - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the practice of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
24 Oct 2016	Flammable grassy weeds	Resource	save (3.42 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
17 Oct 2019	Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Resource	save (8.51 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
31 Jul 2020	Bushfire lessons from cultural burns	Resource		fire, indigenous communities, land management
18 Sep 2018	Multi-temporal and spatial remote sensing imagery to monitor flammability in Australia	Resource	save (3.56 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
04 Dec 2014	Challenges in physics based bushfire modelling	Resource	save (885.16 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
03 Jul 2015	Northern Queensland Fire Season Potential Outlook	Resource	save (3.65 MB)	fire, forecasting
19 Sep 2018	Dry conditions prompt an earlier bushfire season	Resource		cyclone, fire, modelling
29 Jun 2018	Indigenous cultures in the north	Resource	save (954.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
21 Aug 2019	Special address to honour public benefit research pioneer	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Neil Burrows presentation	Resource	save (4.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
09 Dec 2020	The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns	Resource	save (872.25 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
12 Aug 2016	The Australian flammability monitoring system	Resource	save (362.43 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: An integrated prescribed burning research project	Resource	save (2.57 MB)	decision making, fire, prescribed burning
31 Oct 2017	Mapping the fire landscape: active fire surveillance and fuel hazard assessments	Resource	save (869.85 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
08 Sep 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource	save (1.12 MB)	fire, modelling
30 Jun 2017	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning	Resource	save (1.72 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
08 May 2015	The Effect of Extreme Heat on the Performance of a Simulated Firefighter Task Poster	Resource	save (566.54 KB)	fire, response
27 Oct 2014	Next generation models for predicting the behaviour of bushfires	Resource		fire, modelling
19 Sep 2018	Australian flammability monitoring system website	Resource	save (1006.31 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
19 Apr 2018	Three Minute Thesis: Sprinkler systems to improve the bushfire resilience of buildings	Resource	save (791.13 KB)	fire, fire impacts
06 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The thing about hazard reduction (webinar 1 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
07 Sep 2017	A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Resource	save (1.36 MB)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
25 Nov 2020	Finding fires faster	Resource		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing