IA 5.10. Development of a Pan-European system to define management priorities to mitigate fire impact

What kind of result is this?

New tool

What’s the area addressed?

Advanced Technology Solutions
Emergency management 

What’s the covered phase?

Prevention & Preparedness

What’s the addressed challenge?

Harmonize EU data on fuels, and develop a multicriteria priorization system 

What value is proposed?

The task aims at developing a pan-EU system to select management priorities depending on potential fire behaviour.

The system will use new fuel data for all of Europe, fire simulations, and maps of value at exposure to define priorities for fuel management, depending on fire hazard and values at risk.

In the first stage, the architecture of the system has to be designed, linking fuel requirements, the specific requirements and capabilities of the fire spread simulator in terms of area to be studied, metrics to be obtained from multiple simulations, etc., and the definition and methodology to solve a planning problem related to potential fire spread.

A linkage between the new fuel models and fire simulations will be implemented into a web platform, where the evaluation landscape (large size, from regional to country level) and climatic scenarios can be downloaded, and information on fire behaviour and fire distribution metrics, adjusted to those sites and scenarios, can be downloaded.

Based on multiple ignition points and a set of climatic scenarios, a set of metrics on fire behaviour and risk metrics will be generated from the simulator and used as input to solve multicriteria decision problems.

Finally, once the system is created, a study of requirements to further improve the system will be defined, creating the required environment for data enhancement and increasing problem complexity in the future.

Who can use it?

Researchers, Policy makers

What type of tool is it?

​​Map/Remote sensing​

How does it look like?

​​Cartography layers (SIG),  a DSS​

This tool is…

⊠  a new tool

☐ an improved tool

What are the vision & mission statement?

The action will generate an EU-level set of maps of variables related to fire behaviour (total aboveground biomass (AGB), superficial fuels and canopy fuels variables, such as CBH and CBD). Through multiple simulations, the subtask will generate different outputs related to fire behaviour and fire distribution metrics (probability of fire occurrence, etc..).

All outputs will be available through an open access platform. A decision module to select where management actions may be required through high priority valuation will be developed, adjusted to the previously generated outputs.

In addition to the pan-EU system, a geo-catch app and data storage system (web-GIS) are being developed to capture information on fuels across the EU. The information captured with the app is expected to generate information across the EU for validating the remote sensing generated information.

• The new tool and methodology are expected to provide an easy to understand process to integrate multiple criteria into spatially explicit decision making.
• For some countries in Europe, it will be the first fuel map that can be used for fire simulation, providing new opportunities.

When will it be complete?

TBC

Documentation

Server available here

Scientific Paper “Pan-European fuel map server: An open-geodata portal for supporting fire risk assessment”

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