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
Improving decision support tools for conservation of fire-adapted ecosystems in southern Australia, through integrated simulation of reproductive ecology and landscape dynamics	Project	fire, modelling
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires	Project	fire, prescribed burning
2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	Project	fire, fire weather, soil moisture
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project	fire, hydrology
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project	fire, fuel reduction, land management
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	Project	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia	Project	fire, fire impacts
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project	fire, remote sensing
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR	Project	fire, modelling
Risk communications in Victoria	Project	communication, communities, fire
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Fighting fires and fatigue	Project	fire
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting	Project	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project	communication, fire, fire impacts
Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands	Project	environments, fire, fire impacts
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for 3D bushfire mapping	Project	fire, modelling, risk analysis
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
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Project	fire, infrastructure, resilience
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities	Project	fire, risk analysis, vulnerability
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project	capability, fire, fire severity
Plume and air quality modelling	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Locating gendered knowledge and practices in Aboriginal fire ecology	Project	fire, fire impacts, indigenous communities
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire suppression	Project	fire, fire impacts, response
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Project	fire, fire severity, fire weather
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project	fire, flood, remote sensing
Smoke transportation and emissions modelling	Project	fire, modelling
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project	fire, modelling
Scientific advice for the development of a suppression effectiveness model to support strategic bushfire risk planning	Project	decision making, fire, governance
The impacts of catastrophic wildfire on ecological interactions among regenerated vegetation, fungi and small foraging marsupials	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project	emergency management, fire, firefighter
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
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project	emergency management, fire, volunteering
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project	fire, indigenous communities
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project	economics, fire