The effects of fire and human host density on Chrysops silacea and C. dimidiata abundance and age structure was evaluated at sites of Loa loa filariasis transmission in the Congo rain forest. Fire increased the catch of C. silacea 8.5-fold at ground level and 5-fold in the canopy, but did not modify the catch size of C. dimidiata. Catch size increased 2-fold when a pygmy camp located near the c...

35 * Based on a report by the author under the title, “Improving Fire Hazard Assessment at the UrbanWildland Interface: Case Study in South Lake Tahoe, CA.” For the full report, see the Website of the Center for Urban Forest Research at . Lisa de Jong is a research forester, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Center for Urban Forest Research, Davi...

Donald McKenzie and David L. Peterson are research biologists at the USDA Forest Servi Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab; Amy E. Hessl is an assistant professor, Departm Geography, West Virginia University; James K. Agee is a professor, College of Forest Reso Washington; John F. Lehmkuhl is a research wildlife biologist, USDA Forest Service, Paci Station, Wenatchee Forestry Sciences L...

In this paper, we analyzed the influence of time required to begin coping behaviors of managers in chemical terrorism. In order to calculate the damage of chemical attacks in a major rail station, our network model-based pedestrian simulator was applied with hazard prediction systems of indoor gas diffusion. Our analysis was used for enlightening the managers of the rail station in a tabletop e...

Forest fires are an important problem for many countries. Prevention, surveillance and extinguishing tasks are costly and sometimes risky. This paper focuses on the surveillance of the fire embers once the fire is extinguished. This is a post-fire task which requires an important amount of terrestrial resources, especially if the weather conditions may provoke the re-ignition of the fire. We pr...

2Research Hydrologists and Computer Specialist, respectively, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Arcata, California. Abstract: A simple Monte Carlo simulation evaluated the effect of several fire management strategies on soil slip erosion and wildfires. The current condition was compared to (1) a very intensive fuelbreak system...

Real-time fire detection, alerting and suppression system detects the presence of fire in indoor scenarios by recording the video inside the room via surveillance camera installed. This system introduces an image processing technique through video surveillance to detect the fire using different experts by combining three classifiers based on color, shape and motion of the fire. This detection s...

González-Cabán, Armando. 2009. Proceedings of the third international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: common problems and approaches. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-227 (English). Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 395 p. These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies ...