Research Advisory Forum - predictive services

Held at NSW Rural Fire Service in Sydney on 17 October, this RAF explored how research is improving the ability to understand, predict, forecast and monitor natural hazards.

More than 40 researchers, end-users and emergency management personnel came together for presentations and discussions on the capabilities of bushfire prediction and forecasting, and how these capabilities are fundamental to improving resilience through better planning, preparedness, risk management and response.

Projects that presented at this RAF:

• Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour
• Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics
• Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts
• Fire surveillance and hazard mapping
• Fire spread prediction across fuel types
• Coupled fire - atmosphere modelling
• Improving land dryness measures and forecasts