Understanding fire spread in different ecosystems is of fundamental importance for conservation, management and anticipating the effects of environmental changes. Tailoring existing fire spread models to particular landscapes ...

Wildfires are a major concern in Argentinian northwestern Patagonia and in many ecosystems and human societies around the world. We developed an efficient cellular automata model in Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) to ...

Explicit consideration of the possibility of wildfires enhances strategic planning for landscape management; however, incorporating the stochastic processes that govern fire occurrence and spread in optimization models ...

The general objective of this thesis is to address the problem of forest fires from a pre- ventive perspective, mainly motivated by the increase of this phenomenon worldwide and exacerbated by climate change. The current ...

The general objective of this thesis is to address the problem of forest fires from a preventive perspective, mainly motivated by the increase of this phenomenon worldwide and exacerbated by climate change. The current ...

While fire has been part of the natural history of ecosystems, those that go out of control often represent significant threats to public safety, infrastructure, biodiversity and forest resources (Martell, 2007), and are ...

Fire is a key agent in the dynamics and organization of several ecosystems such as pastures and savannas (Parr and Andersen, 2006), also, in some cases it can act as a disturbance agent in numerous tropical forests ...