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 communications in Victoria	Project	communication, communities, fire
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project	fire, fuel reduction, land management
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project	fire, fire impacts
Cropland fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, preparedness
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project	fire, remote sensing
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project	fire, modelling
Fighting fires and fatigue	Project	fire
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
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Social, economic, and environmental impacts of the 2012/13 Victorian fire season	Project	decision making, economics, fire
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project	emergency management, fire, volunteering
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project	environments, fire, fire impacts
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project	communication, communities, fire
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project	fire, infrastructure, resilience
Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation in patchy fuel beds and slopped terrain - a parametric study	Project	fire, fire impacts
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project	fire, fire impacts, response
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project	fire, flood, remote sensing
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project	fire, modelling
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project	fire, modelling
Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Project	child-centred, fire
Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project	fire
An investigation of the dynamics of fire-fire interactions using a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Project	fire, modelling
Development of an integrated method to predict bushfire hazard	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project	fire, indigenous communities
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project	fire
Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project	fire, prescribed burning
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project	fire, fire impacts
Plume and air quality modelling	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project	fire, modelling
Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project	fire, mitigation, policy