Essays about: "Wildland fires"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Wildland fires.
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1. Exploring the Feasibility of Using Fire Dynamics Simulator to Improve the Calculation of the Wildfire Available Safe Egress Time
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires pose a significant threat to public safety and property in areas where urban development encroaches upon natural landscapes. This thesis aims to investigate the effect of smoke from a WUI fire on the tenability conditions of a small village and to establish a worst-case-scenario trigger boundary around it as an improved basis for the WUI available safe egress time (WASET). READ MORE
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2. Testing macroscopic traffic evacuation models for wildland-urban interface fires
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : This thesis presents the verification and validation testing performed on the evacuation simulation platform WUI-NITY which has the aim of being a simulation tool for the integration of different layers, such as pedestrian, traffic and wildfire with evolving dynamic interactions. The present thesis aims at applying a set of verification tests and validation testing suitable for WUI-NITY with a focus on the traffic component. READ MORE
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3. Requirements for Modelling WUI Fire Evacuation by Unconventional Means
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Wildfires pose a significant safety issue, especially when they interact with urban areas, known as wildland urban interface (WUI) fires. As wildfire numbers are rising and developments near wildlands are increasing, there is an increased need to model all types of evacuation in order to prepare and inform evacuating authorities and evacuees. READ MORE
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4. Living with Fire : How can we live with and contain wildland fires in the age of the pyrocene?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitetAbstract : Wildland fires are a natural process from nature. Even though they are natural, humans inherently fear them and started to suppress them until recent years successfully. More and more countries are seeing unprecedented fires all around the globe. READ MORE
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5. A weighty issue : estimation of fire size with geographically weighted logistic regression
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : Size estimations of fires that occurred centuries ago have been the subject of study for many decades. More accurate spatial fire histories from tree rings were possible by either drawing the sample location on detailed topographic maps or using GPS receivers. READ MORE