scholarly journals Estimation of the severity of Forest Fire Damage and the Recovery Using Landsat Data

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Laru SAMARAKOON ◽  
Nobuyoshi KISHIHARA ◽  
Shigeru OGAWA ◽  
Shoji INOUE ◽  
Nobuhiro EBISU
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire Damage ◽  
Landsat Data

scholarly journals Characteristics of Korean Forest Fires and Forest Fire Policies in the Joseon Dynasty Period (1392–1910) Derived From Historical Records

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Donghyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Fire Damage ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Joseon Dynasty ◽  
Fire Stations

This study examined the records of forest fire outbreaks and characteristics over the 518 years of the Joseon Dynasty period (1392–1910) through the analysis of major historical records of Korea. The historical books used in this study were 14 major national historical books, and include the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (朝鮮王朝實錄), the Diaries of the Royal Secretariat (承政院日記), and the literature was examined, centering on official records of the royal palace in the Joseon Dynasty period. The contents of forest fires recorded in the historical record literature include the overviews of outbreak, forest fire types, and forest fire damage. According to the results of analysis of historical records, the largest forest fire damage was in the forest fire that occurred on the east coast in 1672, in which 65 persons died and in the forest fire that occurred in the same area in 1804, in which 61 persons died and 2600 private houses were destroyed by fire. The causes of fire outbreak were shown to be unknown causes in 42 cases, accidental fires in 10 cases, arson in 3 cases, thunder strike in 3 cases, hunting activities in 2 cases, child playing with fire in 1 case, cultivating activities in 1 case, and house fire in 1 case. Forest fire outbreaks were analyzed by region and by season and according to the results, 56% (39 cases) of the forest fires broke out on the east coast and 73% (46 cases) broke out in the spring. Forest fire policies include those for general forests, those for reserved forests, those for prohibited forests, those for capital city forests, those for royal family’s graves, royal ancestral shrine, and placenta chamber, those for hunting grounds such as martial art teaching fields, and relief policies for people in areas damaged by forest fires, forest fire policies for national defense facilities such as beacon fire stations, and burning and burning control policies for pest control. In conclusion, due to the seriousness of forest fires in the Joseon Dynasty period, the royal authority and local administrative agencies made various forest fire prevention policies, policies for stabilization of the people’s livelihood damaged due to forest fires, and methods to manage major facilities in forests.

Evaluation of forest fire damage based on Sentinel-2 images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Wang ◽  
Xiaohua Zhang ◽  
Wenxiang Xue ◽  
Chaoyun Qin ◽  
YuPing Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire Damage ◽  
Sentinel 2

scholarly journals Characteristics of Spatiotemporal Changes in the Occurrence of Forest Fires

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 4940
Author(s):  
Taehee Kim ◽  
Suyeon Hwang ◽  
Jinmu Choi
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fluctuation Analysis ◽  
Fire Damage ◽  
Fire Occurrence ◽  
Temporal Correlations ◽  
Spatial Differences ◽  
Damage Data

The purpose of this study is to understand the characteristics of the spatial distribution of forest fire occurrences with the local indicators of temporal burstiness in Korea. Forest fire damage data were produced in the form of areas by combining the forest fire damage ledger information with VIIRS-based forest fire occurrence data. Then, detrended fluctuation analysis and the local indicator of temporal burstiness were applied. In the results, the forest fire occurrence follows a self-organized criticality mechanism, and the temporal irregularities of fire occurrences exist. When the forest fire occurrence time series in Gyeonggi-do Province, which had the highest value of the local indicator of temporal burstiness, was checked, it was found that the frequency of forest fires was increasing at intervals of about 10 years. In addition, when the frequencies of forest fires and the spatial distribution of the local indicators of forest fire occurrences were compared, it was found that there were spatial differences in the occurrence of forest fires. This study is meaningful in that it analyzed the time series characteristics of the distribution of forest fires in Korea to understand that forest fire occurrences have long-term temporal correlations and identified areas where the temporal irregularities of forest fire occurrences are remarkable with the local indicators of temporal burstiness.

Numerical simulation of the tree higro-thermal response in forest fire environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Eusébio Conceiçã ◽  
João Gomes ◽  
Maria Manuela Lúcio ◽  
Jorge Raposo ◽  
Domingos Xavier Viegas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Thermal Response ◽  
View Factor ◽  
Tree Model ◽  
Pine Tree ◽  
Surface Temperatures ◽  
Fire Environment ◽  
Fire Front ◽  
Heat Exchanges

This paper refers to a numerical study of the hypo-thermal behaviour of a pine tree in a forest fire environment. The pine tree thermal response numerical model is based on energy balance integral equations for the tree elements and mass balance integral equation for the water in the tree. The simulation performed considers the heat conduction through the tree elements, heat exchanges by convection between the external tree surfaces and the environment, heat exchanges by radiation between the flame and the external tree surfaces and water heat loss by evaporation from the tree to the environment. The virtual three-dimensional tree model has a height of 7.5 m and is constituted by 8863 cylindrical elements representative of its trunks, branches and leaves. The fire front has 10 m long and a 2 m high. The study was conducted taking into account that the pine tree is located 5, 10 or 15 m from the fire front. For these three analyzed distances, the numerical results obtained regarding to the distribution of the view factors, mean radiant temperature and surface temperatures of the pine tree are presented. As main conclusion, it can be stated that the values of the view factor, MRT and surface temperatures of the pine tree decrease with increasing distance from the pine tree in front of fire.

RLC FOREST FIRE IMAGES IN RUSSIA, 1998-1999

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. D. AMBROSE ◽  
P. SCHLESINGER ◽  
T. A. STONE
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire
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