Paper Info
Title
A forest fire propagation simulator for bogotá.
Abstract
Forest fires are time evolving disasters that consume environmental and financial resources, endangering the rescue units that try to mitigate them. As such, a simulator that can predict the fire propagation is essential to locate control systems, in order to reduce the loss of natural resources without risking the firefighters. This paper proposes a simulator based on discrete representation of the selected areas where the velocity of fire propagation between neighbors depends on variables associated with locative or climatological characteristics. We consider discrete classification based on the spread in each direction. To validate our simulator we considered two scenarios: a theoretical area to test the algorithm considering complete information characteristics and a forest area near Bogotá, Colombia. The results show realistic propagation patterns compared to region real past forest fire events. For a better prediction we need more reliable data and relate the fire to both location and weather characteristics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.5555/2693848.2694040
WSC '14: Winter Simulation Conference Savannah Georgia December, 2014
Keywords
Field
DocType
climatology,disasters,fires,forestry,pattern classification,BOGOTA,Colombia,climatological characteristics,control systems,discrete representation,environmental resources,financial resources,firefighters,forest fire events,forest fire propagation simulator,location characteristics,locative characteristics,natural resources,rescue units,weather characteristics
Simulation,Computer science,Natural resource,Control system,Discrete representation,Complete information
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0891-7736
978-1-4673-9741-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gilberto A. Morales120.74
Ridley S. Morales Mahecha200.34
Carlos F. Valencia300.34
Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei46611.78
Morales, R.S.500.34
Akhavan-Tabatabaei, R.600.34