In this article we develop a simulation model to evaluate the economic efficiency of fuel treatments and apply it to two sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin of the western United States: the Wyoming Sagebrush Steppe and Mountain Big Sagebrush ecosystems. These ecosystems face the two most prominent concerns in sagebrush ecosystems relative to wildfire: annual grass invasion and native conif...

Although technology has advanced at breathless pace, wildfire still bursts out every year all over the world. There are various wildfire monitoring system employed in diferrent countries, most of them are depended on photos or videos to identify features of wildfire, after wildfire happened. Delay of confirmation is diverse based on used techonologies. An autonomous forest patrol system by Unma...

In this article we develop a simulation model for estimating the economic efficiency of fuel treatments and apply it to two sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin of the western United States: Wyoming Sagebrush Steppe and Mountain Big Sagebrush. These two ecosystems face the two most prominent resource management concerns in sagebrush ecosystems relative to wildfire: annual grass invasion and ...

Predicting wildfire under future conditions is complicated by complex interrelated drivers operating across large spatial scales. Annual area burned (AAB) is a useful index of global wildfire activity. Current and antecedent seasonal climatic conditions, and the timing of snowpack melt, have been suggested as important drivers of AAB. As climate warms, seasonal climate and snowpack co-vary in i...

Declining forest health attributed to associations between extensive bark beetle-caused tree mortality, accumulations of hazardous fuels, wildfire, and climate change have catalyzed changes in forest health and wildfire protection policies of land management agencies. These changes subsequently prompted research to investigate the extent to which bark beetle-altered fuel complexes affect fire b...

In this research, the origin of wildfire area is assessed by using potential burn severity and WRF-SFIRE model. This research focuses on mountainous savanna region, taking case Gililawa Darat event. The most accurate index among Sentinel-2B optical indices, i.e. dNBR, MIRBI, dMIRBI, CSI, dCSI, NDVI, dNDVI, EVI, dEVI Landsat-8 OLI/TIRS thermal mixed LST, dLST, LST/EVI, d(LST/EVI) was used to map...

The vertical temperature profile and hence the stability in the atmosphere near the ground varies significantly between day and night. Typically, the potential temperature at the surface is higher than that above the ground during the day and lower than that above the ground during the night. Such differences in the vertical temperature profile might act to accelerate or slow down wildfire prop...

Understanding spatial controls on wildfires is important when designing adaptive fire management plans and optimizing fuel treatment locations on a forest landscape. Previous research about this topic focused primarily on spatial controls for fire origin locations alone. Fire spread and behavior were largely overlooked. This paper contrasts the relative importance of biotic, abiotic, and anthro...

11 One of the objectives of the present study is to gain a deeper understanding of the heat 12 transfer mechanisms that control the spread of wildfires. Five experimental fires were 13 conducted in the field across on plots of living vegetation. The lengths of the ignition lines 14 were set in the range of 20–30 m to reproduce wildfire front conditions as closely as possible. 15 The experiments...