Wildland fire risk maps using S<sup>2</sup>F<sup>2</sup>M<sup>*</sup>

Wildland fires are a critical natural hazard in many regions of the World. Every year, millions of hectares are burned in Tropical, Boreal and Mediterranean forest, which causes a wide variety of effects, from atmospheric emissions, to soil erosion, biodiversity loss and drainage alterations. Reduct...

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Autores principales: BIanchini, Germán, Cortés, Ana, Margalef, Tomás, Luque Fadón, Emilio, Chuvieco, Emilio, Camia, Andrea
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Publicado: 2005
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/9600
http://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/JCST-Dec05-13.pdf
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topic Ciencias Informáticas
Mapa de Riesgo
high-performance computing
spellingShingle Ciencias Informáticas
Mapa de Riesgo
high-performance computing
BIanchini, Germán
Cortés, Ana
Margalef, Tomás
Luque Fadón, Emilio
Chuvieco, Emilio
Camia, Andrea
Wildland fire risk maps using S<sup>2</sup>F<sup>2</sup>M<sup>*</sup>
topic_facet Ciencias Informáticas
Mapa de Riesgo
high-performance computing
description Wildland fires are a critical natural hazard in many regions of the World. Every year, millions of hectares are burned in Tropical, Boreal and Mediterranean forest, which causes a wide variety of effects, from atmospheric emissions, to soil erosion, biodiversity loss and drainage alterations. Reduction of those negative effects of fire requires to improve current fire risk assessment methods. Wildland firerisk assessment is a very significant issue. This risk assessment is usually based on ignition probability due to meteorological or human factors, but it does not usually consider propagation danger when a wildland fire has started. To evaluate propagation danger, it is necessary to apply some propagation model and simulate the behaviour of the fireline. However, this propagation danger must be evaluated considering many different possible scenarios. Therefore, the amount of simulations that must be carried out is enormous and it is necessary to apply high-performance computing techniques to make the methodology feasible. In this paper, a method for creating propagation danger maps based on factorial experimentation is described. The methodology was applied at a southern Europe scale during the 2004 summer season.
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author BIanchini, Germán
Cortés, Ana
Margalef, Tomás
Luque Fadón, Emilio
Chuvieco, Emilio
Camia, Andrea
author_facet BIanchini, Germán
Cortés, Ana
Margalef, Tomás
Luque Fadón, Emilio
Chuvieco, Emilio
Camia, Andrea
author_sort BIanchini, Germán
title Wildland fire risk maps using S<sup>2</sup>F<sup>2</sup>M<sup>*</sup>
title_short Wildland fire risk maps using S<sup>2</sup>F<sup>2</sup>M<sup>*</sup>
title_full Wildland fire risk maps using S<sup>2</sup>F<sup>2</sup>M<sup>*</sup>
title_fullStr Wildland fire risk maps using S<sup>2</sup>F<sup>2</sup>M<sup>*</sup>
title_full_unstemmed Wildland fire risk maps using S<sup>2</sup>F<sup>2</sup>M<sup>*</sup>
title_sort wildland fire risk maps using s<sup>2</sup>f<sup>2</sup>m<sup>*</sup>
publishDate 2005
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/9600
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