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Gabriela Azócar de la Cruz, Gabriela Alfaro, Claudia Alonso, Rubén Calvo and Paz Orellana
Wildland fires are a phenomenon of broad interest due to their relationship with climate change. The impacts of climate change are related to a greater frequency and intensity of wildland fires. In this context, megafires have become a phenomenon of part...
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Moulay A. Akhloufi, Andy Couturier and Nicolás A. Castro
Wildfires represent a significant natural risk causing economic losses, human death and environmental damage. In recent years, the world has seen an increase in fire intensity and frequency. Research has been conducted towards the development of dedicate...
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Nikolay Viktorovich Baranovskiy, Aleksey Podorovskiy and Aleksey Malinin
Forest fires have a negative impact on the economy in a number of regions, especially in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas. An important link in the fight against fires in WUI areas is the development of information and computer systems for predicting...
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Elena Ausonio, Patrizia Bagnerini and Marco Ghio
The recent huge technological development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide breakthrough means of fighting wildland fires. We propose an innovative forest firefighting system based on the use of a swarm of hundreds of UAVs able to generate a...
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Torgrim Log, Vigdis Vandvik, Liv Guri Velle and Maria-Monika Metallinou
In recent years, severe and deadly wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have resulted in an increased focus on this particular risk to humans and property, especially in Canada, USA, Australia, and countries in the Mediterranean area. Also, in areas not ...
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Robert E. Keane
Wildfire in declining whitebark pine forests can be a tool for ecosystem restoration or an ecologically harmful event. This document presents a set of possible wildfire management practices for facilitating the restoration of whitebark pine across its ra...
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Darren R. Clabo
A recent wildland fire history and climate database was compiled for South Dakota, USA (SD). Wildfires are generally a warm season phenomenon across central and western SD while eastern SD exhibits a spring peak in annual wildfire activity. It is hypothe...
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Pedro A. Jiménez, Domingo Muñoz-Esparza and Branko Kosovic
Wildland fires are responsible for large socio-economic impacts. Fires affect the environment, damage structures, threaten lives, cause health issues, and involve large suppression costs. These impacts can be mitigated via accurate fire spread forecast t...
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Domingo M. Molina-Terrén, Adrian Cardil and Leda N. Kobziar
Wildfire presents a challenge to natural resource managers the world over, and the intentional setting of fires can be used to alleviate some of the challenges associated with wildfire management. Prescribed burning can be used prior to wildfires to redu...
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Mario Elia, Raffaella Lovreglio, Nicola A. Ranieri, Giovanni Sanesi and Raffaele Lafortezza
One of the most important environmental issues in Europe is the expansion of wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) and how this trend may affect the occurrence of wildfires. Land use changes, the abandonment of farmland, and reduced grazing has led to an incr...
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