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
Risk perception, preparedness and response of livestock producers to bushfires: a South Australian case study	Biblio	save (109.26 KB)	animals, fire, risk management
Identification and quantitative analysis of smoldering and flaming combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, modelling, propagation
A Statistical Approach to Understanding Canopy Winds over Complex Terrain	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Estimating grassland curing with remotely sensed data	Biblio		fire, fire severity, modelling
Quantifying dynamic fire behaviour phenomena using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technology	Biblio	save (2.14 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (2.4 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - final project report	Biblio	save (1.58 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.71 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Initiation of smouldering combustion in biomass	Biblio	save (14.67 MB)	fire, prescribed burning
A Seasonal-Window Ensemble-Based Thresholding Technique Used to Detect Active Fires in Geostationary Remotely Sensed Data	Biblio		emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Evaluation of daily soil moisture deficit used in Australian forest fire danger rating system	Biblio	save (2.64 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impacts Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.82 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
A systematic exploration of the potential for bushfire risk mitigation with prescribed burning	Biblio	save (776.62 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Determining firebrand generation rate using physics-based modelling from experimental studies through inverse analysis	Biblio	save (8.12 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Modelling of tree fires and fires transitioning from the forest floor to the canopy with a physics-based model	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Culturally appropriate mapping tools for informing two-way fire management planning in remote indigenous north Australian communities - peer viewed	Biblio	save (531.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, planning
Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Radiation-Aided and Self-sustained Smoldering Combustion of Radiata Pine	Biblio		fire, fire weather, fuel reduction
How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?	Biblio		fire, firefighter, modelling
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
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
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design	Biblio	save (3.78 MB)	engineering, fire, resilience
Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Modelling	Biblio	save (563.46 KB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
Development of a predictive model for estimating forest surface fuel load in Australian eucalypt forests with LiDAR data	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Challenges for wildfire-prone urban-rural interfaces: The case of Melbourne	Biblio	save (460.84 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Terrestrial Image-Based Point Clouds for Mapping Near-Ground Vegetation Structure: Potential and Limitations	Biblio	save (7.72 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
Investigating the activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Biblio	save (5.29 MB)	fire, local knowledge, volunteering
Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire
Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies	Biblio		fire, response
Fuels3D: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1004.83 KB)	fire
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: Parametric study	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
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
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response