Research of Forest Fire in Inner Mongolia Based on CA and GIS

Author

Yang Hongye ; He Qiaoli ; Liu Yuewen

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Eng., Inner Mongolia Univ. of Technol., Hohhot, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper integrated the geographical information system with cellular automata (CA) and made use of VB and ArcGIS as development tools to design and implement the system of forest fire spread in Inner Mongolia Region. It realized the simulation of the 2D forest fire spread based on CA and visualization of the 3D realtime images transmitted from the fire site. In the 2D simulation process, combing the physical model and CA model and considering the factors affecting the forest fire, such as the meteorological, terrain and fuel type in order to more realistically simulate the spread of forest fire. At the same time, finding the short path to the fire site for fighter during the forest fire. By the analysis results, the decision-makers can make the scientific and effective fire extinguishing decisions.

Keywords

cellular automata; data visualisation; digital simulation; fires; forestry; geographic information systems; 2D simulation process; 3D realtime images; ArcGIS; Inner Mongolia Region; VB; cellular automata; extinguishing decisions; forest fire; geographical information system; Computational modeling; Database systems; Decision making; Engines; Fires; Geographic Information Systems; Rendering (computer graphics); Space technology; Visual BASIC; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3692-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3693-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5301030

Filename

5301030