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Author
Leonard, J. | Blanchi, R. | Leicester, R. | Lipkin, F. | Black, J.
Title
Profiling Urban Interface Vulnerability.
Coporate
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia
Book or Conf
Fire and Materials 2009. 11th International Conference. Conference Papers. Proceedings. Organised by Interscience Communications Limited. January 26-28, 2009, Interscience Communications Limited, London, England, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Keywords
urban/wildland interface | bush fires | weather effects | human behavior | meteorology | wildland fires | fire fighting | fire statistics | scenarios | factors | fire spread
Identifiers
Bushfire CRC; influence of meteorological conditions; defining the weather context; fire fighting activities carried out during and after the wildfire event/house loss; urban design and its behaviour during wildfire attack; creating a spatial configuration of objects; defining the relevant non-spatial variables; vulnerability analysis of a defined scenario; assessing the interaction between objects (initialisation of the urban environment scene); simulation ember distribution; running time based analysis; process of continually refinement