Modelling, Monitoring

and

Management of

Forest Fires III

Editors

C.A. Brcbbia Wessex Institute

of Technology, Italy

UK

G. Perona Politecnico di Torino,

WITpRESS

Southampton,

Boston

Contents
Section 1: Air quality and health risks

Safety
the

in forest fire

fighting

action:

a new

radiometric model to evaluate

safety

distance for firemen

working

with

hand-operated

systems 3

S. Bertoldo, L. Corgnati, A. Losso & G. Perona

Modelling the exposure of firefighters to smoke based on measured data A. 1. Miranda, J. H. Amorim, V. Martins, P. Cascao, J. Valente,
R. Ottmar, L. M.

Ribeiro, D.

X.

Viegas

& C.

Borrego

13

Section 2:

Computational modeling

methods and

experiments

Fire behavior A.

based

on

simulated field

plots
27

Beutiing,

A. C. Batista & R. V. Soares in

Spatio-temporal modelling of wildfires through log Gaussian Cox processes L. Serra, M. Saez, D. Varga, A. Tobias,
Prediction and /. A.

Catalonia, Spain, 1994-2008,

39

P. Juan & J. Mateu neural networks and F. N.

modeling

of the forest

using

supercomputers

Maliy,

O. V. Potemkina, I. F.

Yasinskiy,

Yasinskiy,
51

S. G. Sidorov, A. S. Mochalov, V. V. Netkachev & L. P. Chernysheva

Section 3: Detection,

monitoring

and response systems

HarcFIREIM/ArcFUEL:

Forest Fire

Management Geoplatform and

fuel maps M. Bonazountas, D. Kallidromitou & A.

SIRIO:

Astyakopernios

67

an integrated forest fire monitoring, detection and decision support performance and results of the installation in Sanremo (Italy) system A. Losso, L. Corgnati, S. Bertoldo, M. Atlegretti,

R. Notarpietro & G. Perona

79

Monitoring network-based infrastructure for forest fire detection

V. S. Kharchenko, A. A, Orekhov, D. A. Kotchkar & V. V. An automatic forest fires identification

Bogomolov

91

methodology using
101

FY3A/B V1RR images

X. L. A

Qin,

Z. H.

Zhang,

H. Van &X.Zhu cell-based forest fire detection and M, Gulliksson, A.

new

thermally

activated

battery

monitoring

system

B. Neubauer, J. Siden, C.

Olofsson,

Koptyug,
113

H.-E. Nilsson& M.

Norgren
remote forests for active

Launching extinguishing carriers into fire fighting

M. Boboitlos, M Purvis & D.

Zafirov

125

Intelligent

wireless sensor network for wildfire detection 137

A. Ko, N. M. Y. Lee, R. P. S. Sham, C. M. So & S. C. F. Kwok

Section 4: Decision support systems

The relative value of fire planning alternatives D. B. RideoutA N. Kernohan

151

Introducing

GIS-based simulation tools to

support rapid response

in wildland fire A. Moreno, A.

fighting
S. Zlatanova, J. Posada 163

Segura,

& A. Garcia-Alonso

Section 5: Risk and

vulnerability

assessment

Fire risk
a

at the

wildland-urban interface:

a case

study

of 177

Galician county

M L. Chas-Amil, E. Garcia-Martinez & J. Touza

Experimental determination of volatile organic compounds emitted by Thymus vulgaris K. Chetehouna, L. Courty, L Lemee, J. P. Garo & P. Gillard Danger degrees adjustment for the Monte Alegre Formula (FMA) W. T. Wendling, R. V. Soares, A. C. Batista & A. F. Tetto

189

199

Section 6: Resource

optimisation
suppression
213
pressure
on

Regression analysis
R. Hansen

of wildfire

Rekindle
resources

dynamics: validating the

and

wildland fire

suppression
225

implications for fire management in Portugal A. P. Pacheco, J. Clam & T. Oliveira

Author index

237