Key topics

fuel reduction

Fuel reduction is the manipulation, including combustion, or removal of fuels to reduce the likelihood of ignition and/or to lessen potential damage and resistance to control.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Estimating carbon stocks and biomass in surface fuel layers	Biblio	save (3.2 MB)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for northern Australia: annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	fire, fire severity, fuel reduction
	Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes – final project report	Biblio	save (3.11 MB)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Emissions from prescribed fires in temperate forest in south-east Australia: implications for carbon accounting	Biblio	save (256.86 KB)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation - systems to deliver effective prescribed burning across Australian ecosystems: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.53 MB)	fuel reduction, prescribed burning, risk management
	Improved assessment of grassland fuels in multiple jurisdictions across Australia	Biblio	save (535.91 KB)	fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	A global canopy water content product from AVHRR/Metop	Biblio		fuel reduction, land management, remote sensing
	Mapping the efficacy of an Australian fuel reduction burn using Fuels3D point clouds	Biblio	save (509.74 KB)	fuel reduction, modelling, prescribed burning
	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
	A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
	You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
	The influence of soil moisture on surface and sub-surface litter fuel moisture simulation at five Australian sites	Biblio		fuel reduction, remote sensing, soil moisture
	Production of pyrogenic carbon during planned fires in forests of East Gippsland, Victoria	Biblio		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Post-tropical cyclone fuel assessment and bushfire risk	Biblio	save (1.93 MB)	cyclone, fuel reduction, risk management
	JASMIN: a high-resolution soil moisture analysis system for fire prediction	Biblio	save (1.76 MB)	fuel reduction, risk management, soil moisture
	Using pre- and post-fire LiDAR to assess the severity of the 2019 Tasmanian bushfires: field survey methods	Biblio	save (2 MB)	fire impacts, fire severity, fuel reduction
	Opportunities for alternative fuel load reduction approaches - summary report	Biblio	save (2.43 MB)	fuel reduction, risk management
	Modelling feedback between fuel reduction burning and forest carbon and water balance in eucalypt forests	Biblio	save (976.41 KB)	environments, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Simulation of fuel bed ignition by wildland firebrands	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
	Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (410.45 KB)	fuel reduction, optimisation, prescribed burning
	Sources of soil dryness measures and forecasts for fire danger rating	Biblio	save (3.7 MB)	forecasting, fuel reduction, modelling
	Mapping spatial and temporal variation in tree water use with an elevation model and gridded temperature data	Biblio		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for carbon, water and vegetation outcomes	Biblio		environments, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Seasonal fine fuel and coarse woody debris dynamics in north Australian savannas	Biblio		fuel reduction, land management, savanna grasslands
	A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
	Can a growth model be used to describe forest carbon and water balance after fuel reduction burning in temperate forests?	Biblio		environments, fuel reduction, modelling
	Near infrared spectroscopy as a new fire severity metric	Biblio	save (2.33 MB)	fire severity, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Assessing post-fire recovery of flora and fauna in mechanical fuel reduction E. sieberi forests after wildfires 2020	Project		environments, fire impacts, fuel reduction
	Fire eases imbalances of nitrogen and phosphorus in woody plants	Biblio		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Model predictions for fuel reduction burning of eucalypt open forest in the greater Blue Mountains region	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	High-Resolution Estimates of Fire Severity - An Evaluation of UAS Image and LiDAR Mapping Approaches on a Sedgeland Forest Boundary in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
	Contemporary fire regime risks to key ecological assets and processes in north Australian savannas	Biblio		fuel reduction, planning, prescribed burning
	Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, Australia	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
18 Mar 2014	Optimisation of Fuel Reduction Burning Regimes	Resource	save (606.43 KB)	fuel reduction, greenhouse gases, prescribed burning
21 Mar 2014	Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes	Resource	save (606.43 KB)	fuel reduction, greenhouse gases, prescribed burning
23 Jul 2014	Northern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2014	Resource	save (901.87 KB)	fire weather, forecasting, fuel reduction
02 Sep 2014	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2014-15	Resource	save (979.15 KB)	fire weather, fuel reduction
04 Dec 2014	Optimising fuel reduction burning	Resource	save (605.15 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
14 Apr 2015	Scan and burn in the ACT	Blog		fuel reduction, land management, prescribed burning
13 May 2015	To burn or not to burn?	News		fuel reduction, land management, prescribed burning