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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	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
	Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project		fire, modelling
	Risk communications in Victoria	Project		communication, communities, fire
	From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
	Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project		decision making, fire, governance
	Fighting fires and fatigue	Project		fire
	Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project		emergency management, fire, firefighter
	The utility of point clouds to estimate fuel hazards	Project		fire, fire impacts, risk analysis
	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
	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
	Development of seasonal fire prediction tools	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
	User interface platform for the Victorian historical fire weather gridded dataset	Project		fire, fire impacts
	Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project		fire, fire severity, fire weather
	A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project		fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
	Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project		fire, infrastructure, resilience
	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
	Coexisting with fire: Integrating resilient landscape design principles within broader urban place making policy for bushfire risk reduction in Australia	Project		fire, mitigation, policy
	Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project		fire, fire impacts, response
	Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
	Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project		fire, flood, remote sensing
	Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project		fire, modelling
	Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project		fire, modelling, physics
	Cropland fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, preparedness
	The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project		fire, fire impacts, planning
03 Jul 2015	Northern Queensland Fire Season Potential Outlook	Resource	save (3.65 MB)	fire, forecasting
23 Nov 2018	Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling	Resource	save (832.11 KB)	fire, modelling
27 Aug 2019	Australian Flammability Monitoring System Website	Resource	save (1.31 MB)	fire, remote sensing
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: The burning question	Resource	save (97.66 KB)	emergency management, fire, response
29 Jun 2017	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain for bushfire modelling	Resource	save (2.33 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
13 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 13 May 2020 - The science of hazard reduction: what do we know, what are the knowledge gaps?	Resource	save (215.66 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Meteorology of the Sampson Flat Fire in January 2015	Resource	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather
29 Jun 2017	The detection and surveillance of active fire using Himawari-8	Resource	save (9.01 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
30 Aug 2016	The social life of science: tales from Victoria and the Northern Territory - Jessica Weir	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	decision making, fire, policy
18 Aug 2015	Towards Culturally Appropriate Fire Management in the Waanyi and Garawa Lands	Resource	save (147.24 KB)	fire, governance, indigenous communities
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (413.6 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
18 Sep 2018	ACCESS-Fire to better understand risk	Resource	save (1.81 MB)	fire, modelling