scholarly journals The application of interactive multimedia CD-ROM technology to wildland fire safety training

2000 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 953-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Thorburn ◽  
A. MacMillan ◽  
M. E. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
National Team

Interactive multimedia technology has been utilized in the development of a CD-ROM based wildland fire safety training course, Wildland Fire – Safety on the Fireline. Interactive multimedia technology allows delivery of training to a large number of students on a consistent basis. In addition, cost savings can be achieved through reduced learning time, reduced travel, minimal use of instructors, and most of all, through retention of knowledge as a result of using multimedia. The course, Wildland Fire – Safety on the Fireline, was developed and reviewed by a national team of specialists in wildland fire behavior and wildland fire safety with the intent of reducing and/or eliminating injuries and fatalities associated with the suppression of wildland fires. Wildland Fire – Safety on the Fireline focuses on due diligence, situational awareness, entrapment survival, health, equipment, and hazards encountered when working on the fireline. Each of the four sections comprising the course is followed by a board game test in preparation for a final test that is tracked by the computer. Key words: Canada, computer applications, fire behavior, fire entrapment avoidance, firefighter fatalities, firefighter physiology, fire suppression, fire survival, personal protective equipment, risk management, safe work practices, situational awareness, wildfire case studies, wildland firefighting, wildland-urban interface.

scholarly journals Managing the development and production of interactive multimedia courseware in education

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Y. W. Nicholson ◽  
Johnson Y. K. Ngai
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Convenient Means

<span>Multimedia technology has advanced significantly in the past few years. Graphic, animation, audio and video data can be stored and processed efficiently in personal computer systems. CD-ROM technology has also matured over the years and it provides an economical and convenient means for storing a large amount of digital information. With careful designing and authoring, interactive multimedia courseware, in CD-ROM format, can be developed and produced for effective learning.</span><p>In developing interactive multimedia courseware for teaching and learning, instructional design (ID) and management are two crucial aspects for successful products. Based on the authors' experiences in developing multimedia projects in areas (a) curriculum information system, (b) interactive desktop video and (c) video CD-ROM courseware, a design model for managing interactive multimedia courseware production has been proposed</p><p>This paper will present and discuss the model which includes 5 phases, namely (1) analysis (2) development, (3) production, (4) evaluation, and(5) implementation.</p>

A stochastic mixed integer program to model spatial wildfire behavior and suppression placement decisions with uncertain weather

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin J. Belval ◽  
Yu Wei ◽  
Michael Bevers
Keyword(s):  
Wildland Fire ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Integer Program ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Mixed Integer Program ◽  
Weather Forecasts ◽  
Placement Decisions ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Weather Changes ◽  
Nonanticipativity Constraints

Wildfire behavior is a complex and stochastic phenomenon that can present unique tactical management challenges. This paper investigates a multistage stochastic mixed integer program with full recourse to model spatially explicit fire behavior and to select suppression locations for a wildland fire. Simplified suppression decisions take the form of “suppression nodes”, which are placed on a raster landscape for multiple decision stages. Weather scenarios are used to represent a distribution of probable changes in fire behavior in response to random weather changes, modeled using probabilistic weather trees. Multistage suppression decisions and fire behavior respond to these weather events and to each other. Nonanticipativity constraints ensure that suppression decisions account for uncertainty in weather forecasts. Test cases for this model provide examples of fire behavior interacting with suppression to achieve a minimum expected area impacted by fire and suppression.

Reaction times and burning rates for wind tunnel headfires

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph M. Nelson, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
Mass Loss Rate ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Reaction Time Data ◽  
Combustion Regime ◽  
Fuel Particle ◽  
Time Data

Catchpole et al. (1998) reported rates of spread for 357 heading and no-wind fires burned in the wind tunnel facility of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana for the purpose of developing models of wildland fire behavior. The fires were burned in horizontal fuel beds with differing characteristics due to various combinations of fuel type, particle size, packing ratio, bed depth, moisture content, and wind speed. In the present paper, fuel particle and fuel bed data for 260 heading fires from that study (plus as-yet unreported combustion efficiency and reaction time data) are used to develop models for predicting fuel bed reaction time and mass loss rate. Reaction time is computed from the flameout time of a single particle and fuel bed structural properties. It is assumed that the beds burn in a combustion regime controlled by the rate at which air mixes with volatiles produced during pyrolysis, and that not all air entering the fuel bed reaction zone participates in combustion. Comparison of reaction time and burning rate predictions with experimental values is encouraging in view of the simplified modeling approach and uncertainties associated with the experimental measurements.

scholarly journals FIRE BEHAVIOR OF A LARGE-SIZED KIOSK IN RAILWAY STATIONS(Fire Safety)

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 237-242
Author(s):  
Yasushi TAKEI ◽  
Seiji YAMADA ◽  
Daisuke KAMIKAWA ◽  
Yuji HASEMI
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Railway Stations

A Talking Dictionary of Paakantyi

2007 ◽  
pp. 200-204
Author(s):  
David Nathan
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Community Consultation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Language Revival

This case study outlines the development of one component of the interactive multimedia CD-ROM Paakantyi (Hercus & Nathan, 2002), emphasising the value of community consultation throughout the project lifespan.1 In our initial consultations with members of the Paakantyi community of NSW, Australia, about producing a CD-ROM to support their new language revival efforts, community members put forward the idea of a “talking dictionary.” The value that many aboriginal people place on dictionaries as symbols of a language’s significance is well-known, and, particularly following the publication of the (text-only) Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay Web Dictionary (Austin & Nathan, 1996), we had heard many people in many places express a preference to simply hear the words.

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