A simulation model for forest fire spread: a contribution to support decision making regarding firefighting policies

Forest fires are an increasingly frequent phenomenon in Portugal as well as worldwide. Understanding how they propagate is essential to extinguish or mitigate them more quickly and efficiently. The objective of this work is to study and model the way wildfire spreads assuming the forest as a graph,...

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Main Author: Santos, Catarina Sintra dos (author)
Format: masterThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/34593
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/34593