F5: Forest Fire Flame Front Forecaster
IDA Networking, Volume VIII, Fall 1995
1 Pages Posted: 17 Jun 2013 Last revised: 4 Nov 2015
Date Written: September 1, 1995
Abstract
F5: Forest Fire Flame Front Forecaster is a user-friendly, three-dimensional computer simulation currently under development. F5 predicts the direction of the fire. Summer forest fires flare up throughout the western United States, costing hundreds of millions of dollars to fight and risking the lives of firefighters and the general population. Being able to predict where the flame front will go is critical for quickly and efficiently bringing the fire under control.
Keywords: forest fire, computer simulation, environmental science, flame front, forecaster, digital, topography, prediction tool, historical comparisons, remote sensing, physics
JEL Classification: H1, I18, H50, H56, H70, L30
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