Title :
Managing Forest Fires with i-Protect Fire Simulation Module
Author :
Filippopoulos, Iason ; Stamoulis, Georgios ; Kikiras, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Abstract :
Emergency management is an essential capability in modern society. As disasters can happen at any time and can differ from each other considerably, it is necessary to develop a supple framework which can comply with each situation. This article discusses the fire simulation component of i-Protect. i-Protect is an Emergency Management Framework aiming to support emergency management process during the four phases of a crisis: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
Keywords :
disasters; emergency management; wildfires; crisis situation; disasters; emergency management framework; forest fire management; i-Protect fire simulation module; mitigation; preparedness; recovery; response; Data models; Databases; Fires; Fuels; Geographic information systems; Ignition; Shape; Emergency management framework; GIS; fire simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Informatics (PCI), 2012 16th Panhellenic Conference on
Conference_Location :
Piraeus
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2720-6
DOI :
10.1109/PCi.2012.51
