DocumentCode
2461175
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
fYear
2012
fDate
5-7 Oct. 2012
Firstpage
283
Lastpage
289
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Informatics (PCI), 2012 16th Panhellenic Conference on
Conference_Location
Piraeus
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-2720-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PCi.2012.51
Filename
6377406
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