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
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Disaster in relation to attachment, loss, grief and recovery: the Marysville experience	Project	communities, fire, recovery
Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
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
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near Esperance, WA	Project	coastal, fire, fire impacts
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project	fire, fire weather, soil moisture
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project	capability, fire, fire severity
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project	fire, prescribed burning
Plume and air quality modelling	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Locating gendered knowledge and practices in Aboriginal fire ecology	Project	fire, fire impacts, indigenous communities
Planning for Bushfires on the Rural-Urban Interface: An analysis of the correlations between house setbacks and house loss as evidence of house-to-house fire spread in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires	Project	engineering, fire, planning
Risk communications in Victoria	Project	communication, communities, fire
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project	fire, modelling
Fighting fires and fatigue	Project	fire
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project	child-centred, fire, recovery
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
The impacts of catastrophic wildfire on ecological interactions among regenerated vegetation, fungi and small foraging marsupials	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
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
Sensitivity of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and its application to environmental data	Project	fire
Agency experts supporting bushfire disaster resilience education for primary school students: a case study in NSW	Project	child-centred, education, fire
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project	emergency management, fire, volunteering
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project	economics, fire
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project	communication, communities, fire
A multilevel approach to fire severity using remote sensing, environmental factors and plant ecology	Project	fire, fire impacts, land management
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project	fire, hydrology
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project	fire, infrastructure, resilience
Improving decision support tools for conservation of fire-adapted ecosystems in southern Australia, through integrated simulation of reproductive ecology and landscape dynamics	Project	fire, modelling
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project	fire, mitigation, planning
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project	fire, fire impacts
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
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project	fire, flood, remote sensing
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project	fire, modelling
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project	fire, modelling, propagation