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
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
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project	fire, infrastructure, resilience
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project	fire, fire impacts
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Plume and air quality modelling	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project	fire, fire impacts, response
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project	fire, modelling
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project	fire, flood, remote sensing
Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project	fire, fire impacts, modelling
An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Project	child-centred, 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 utility of point clouds to estimate fuel hazards	Project	fire, fire impacts, risk analysis
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project	communication, fire, fire impacts
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project	economics, fire
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project	fire
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for 3D bushfire mapping	Project	fire, modelling, risk analysis
Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project	fire
Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project	fire, prescribed burning
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communication	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project	fire, mitigation, planning
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project	capability, fire, fire severity
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project	fire, modelling
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
Locating gendered knowledge and practices in Aboriginal fire ecology	Project	fire, fire impacts, indigenous communities
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
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project	decision making, exposure, fire
Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project	fire, modelling, propagation
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project	fire, modelling, physics
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project	fire
Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project	fire, fire weather
Social values in bushfire management decision making	Project	decision making, economics, fire
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday	Project	child-centred, fire, recovery
Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Parameterisation for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling	Project	fire, modelling
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Project	fire, remote sensing