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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2007
CFIS (Crown Fire Initiation and Spread) is a new (nonprofit) software system that incorporates several recently developed models designed to simulate crown fire behavior (Alexander and others 2006). The main outputs of CFIS are ability to determine the: 1) likelihood of crown fire initiation or occurrence; 2) type of crown fire (active vs. passive) and its rate-of-spread; and 3) minimum spotting distance required to increase a fire's overall forward rate-of-spread. This new software application can serve as a decision support aid in a wide variety of fire management activities-ranging from near real-time prediction of fire behavior to analyzing the impacts of fuel treatments on potential crown fire behavior.
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Citation: Alexander, Martin E. 2007. Software can assess fuel treatment effectiveness on crown fire behavior. Fire Management Today 67(3):30.
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- Canada
- CFIS - Crown Fire Initiation and Spread System
- crown fire initiation
- crown fire spread
- fuel management
- fuel treatment
- software
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