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
31 Aug 2020	A participatory approach to school bushfire emergency management planning.	Resource	save (478.91 KB)	fire
23 Aug 2019	Input on handbooks requested	News		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, fire
	Studying leaf area density based wind adjustment factor in Spark	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
	"I think I'm going to be frightened out of my wits" psychological preparedness and vulnerability: insights from the Sampson Flat fire	Biblio	save (196.54 KB)	fire, resilience, vulnerability
30 Aug 2016	"I’m going to be frightened out of my wits": Insights on psychological preparedness from the Sampson Flat fire - Danielle Every	Resource	save (970.63 KB)	communication, communities, fire
08 May 2015	"Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Presentation	Resource	save (2.08 MB)	communication, fire
03 Apr 2020	1 in 10 children affected by bushfires is Indigenous. We’ve been ignoring them for too long	Blog		fire, indigenous communities, resilience
22 Aug 2019	15 years of CRC and AFAC conference partnership	Blog		decision making, emergency management, fire
	2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project		fire, fire weather, soil moisture
15 Mar 2017	25 years of rural fire research in New Zealand	Blog		fire, prescribed burning
29 Jun 2018	3D fire simulation for Northern Australia	Resource	save (1.18 MB)	fire, fire weather, savanna grasslands
07 Feb 2017	7 February – lessons from two historic fires	News		communities, fire, fire impacts
	A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation	Biblio	save (3.37 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
11 Sep 2015	A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems	Resource	save (1.45 MB)	fire, planning, risk analysis
	A bushfire evacuation planning service utilising multiple simulation systems - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (292.86 KB)	fire, planning
	A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	A comparison between TLS and UAS LiDAR to represent eucalypt crown fuel characteristics	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
	A comparison of terrestrial and UAS sensors for measuring fuel hazard in a dry sclerophyll forest	Biblio	save (5.54 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
	A comparison of the performance of Australian Standard smoke alarms in real fire tests when compared to standards-compliant devices from other jurisdictions	Project		fire, risk analysis, warnings
	A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
07 Nov 2016	A great opportunity to network with colleagues	Blog		fire, fuel reduction
03 Oct 2019	A guide to cropland fire reconstruction – project update	News		fire, fire severity
	A guide to develop bushfire case studies - a case study of cropland fires	Project		fire, modelling, scenario analysis
	A guide to reconstructing cropland wildfires – data collection, collation and analysis for case study construction	Biblio	save (2.54 MB)	fire, modelling, scenario analysis
	A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design	Biblio	save (3.78 MB)	engineering, fire, resilience
18 Sep 2018	A LiDAR-derived fuel map for the ACT	Resource	save (1.88 MB)	fire, modelling
	A lightning-caused wildfire ignition forecasting model for operational use	Biblio		fire, fire weather
	A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
19 Nov 2019	A long fire season in store	Blog		climate change, fire, fire severity
	A Method for Validating the Structural Completeness of Understory Vegetation Models Captured with 3D Remote Sensing	Biblio	save (3.65 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
	A model-data fusion framework for estimating fuel properties, vegetation growth, carbon storage and the water balance at hillslope scale	Biblio	save (2.69 MB)	fire, modelling
	A moveable beast: subjective influence of human-animal relationships on risk perception and risk behaviour during bushfire threat	Biblio		animals, decision making, fire
	A multilevel approach to fire severity using remote sensing, environmental factors and plant ecology	Project		fire, fire impacts, land management
07 Sep 2017	A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Resource	save (1.36 MB)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
19 Sep 2018	A new soil dryness product for fire prediction applications	Resource	save (1.97 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
19 Nov 2018	A new wave of PhD completions	News		earthquake, fire, flood
	A radiative transfer model-based method for the estimation of grassland aboveground biomass	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	A report on WRF software development (preliminary)	Biblio	save (855.76 KB)	fire, land management, modelling
	A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread’	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
	A review of firebrand studies on generation and transport	Biblio	save (7.65 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation