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
Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia	Biblio	save (3.97 MB)	fire, mitigation, prescribed burning
Efficiency of Individual Tree Detection Approaches Based on Light-Weight and Low-Cost UAS Imagery in Australian Savannas	Biblio		fire, Northern Australia, remote sensing
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
Development of a predictive model for estimating forest surface fuel load in Australian eucalypt forests with LiDAR data	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Cultural burning and public sector practice in the Australian Capital Territory	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
“Since I went to the conference… I have really thought just how bad lighting fires are”: diversionary conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Biblio		child-centred, fire
How do wet forests burn? : Fuels and fire danger in the world’s tallest flowering forest	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, land management
Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
Improvements to wind field generation in physics-based models to reduce spin-up time and to account for terrain, heated earth surface	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	fire, fire weather
The viability of shared responsibility in relation to wildﬁre prevention in Victoria and California	Project		fire, fire impacts, planning
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Threshold Behaviour in Dynamic Fire Propagation Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (1.3 MB)	fire, propagation
Suitable pyrolysis model for physics-based bushfire simulation	Biblio	save (708.53 KB)	capability, fire, modelling
Simulations of radiation heat flux on a structure from a fire in an idealised shrubland	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	engineering, fire, fire impacts
Encouraging evacuation: the role of behavioural message inputs in bushfire warnings	Biblio		communication, fire, warnings
Fuels3D: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1004.83 KB)	fire
Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	Biblio	save (1.39 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
Victorian bushfire case studies - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (55.09 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning – A historical review of two Australian planning systems	Biblio	save (2.03 MB)	exposure, fire, infrastructure
Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
Evaluation of the feasibility and benefits of operational use of alternative satellite data in the Australian Flammability Monitoring System to ensure long-term data continuity	Biblio	save (790.91 KB)	fire, modelling, optimisation
Thermodynamic considerations of pyrocumulus formation	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study	Biblio	save (7.69 MB)	fire, firefighter, response
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers	Biblio		communication, fire, recovery
Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
RUIM – A fire safety engineering model for rural urban interface firefighter taskforce deployment	Biblio		fire, firefighter, organisational
Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
Physics-Based Simulation of Heat Load on Structures for Improving Construction Standards for Bushfire Prone Areas	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	engineering, fire, physics
Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia	Biblio		climate change, fire, prescribed burning
Cropland fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, preparedness
From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (834.62 KB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning