Alpine Forest Fire Warning System
- Boden und Landökosysteme
- Wasser - Atmosphäre - Umwelt
- Lebensraum und Landschaft
- Forschungscluster "Globaler Wandel"
Abstract
The overall objective of the project is to control and reduce the role of forest fires as natural hazard for the Alpine environment considerably through prevention and mitigation actions. The project aims to develop a multi-referential innovative service that supports forest fire management, above all in prevention activities and in the mitigation of the negative impacts on the Alpine forests. The ambitious goal of ALP FFIRS is to set up a framework for a common warning system for forest fire danger for the whole Alpine region taking into account weather conditions and vegetation patterns. The decision support tool will consist of a daily fire danger level assessment and forecast in order to identify critical periods of forest fire danger in advance. The system will provide actors involved in forest fire prevention and suppression, as well as the general public with enhanced and more accurate predictions of forest fire danger. Through cooperation with the partner countries, methodologically similar and standardised actions can thus be ensured. The project aims to improve forest fire prevention under a changing climate in the Alpine Space with the creation of a shared warning system based on weather conditions affecting fire potential. The fire regime at any given location is a result of complex interactions between fuel, forest structure, topography, ignitions and weather conditions. The analysis of the frequency and distribution of forest fires will allow to model forest fire danger in the alpine region. A univocal definition of an Alpine Forest Fire Danger Scale and a common interpretation of the danger level will be complemented by emergency plans and operational procedures. Due to the debate on likely climate change forest fires as potential disturbance agent have become an issue in the Alpine region over the last decade. An Alpine network on forest fire impact mitigation will be assembled reflecting common political strategy in risk prevention management, explicity taking into account climate change that is affecting fire potential, and fostering mutual aid in vigilance and extinction procedures.
- Forest Fire
- Decision Support
Project staff
Harald Vacik
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Harald Vacik
harald.vacik@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91312
BOKU Project Leader
01.09.2009 - 30.11.2012
Christopher Stuart Eastaugh
Dr. Christopher Stuart Eastaugh MSc.
Project Staff
01.09.2009 - 30.11.2012
Mortimer Müller
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.rer.nat. Mortimer Müller
mortimer.mueller@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91318
Project Staff
01.09.2009 - 30.11.2012
BOKU partners
External partners
ENTENTE POUR LA FORET MEDITERRANNEENNE
Claude Picard
partner
Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste - ERSAF Lombardia - Dipartimento dei Servizi al Territorio Rurale e alle Foreste
Enrico Calvo
partner
Slovenian Forestry Institute
Marko Kovac
partner
BSC, Poslovno podporni center d.o.o. Kranj
Helena Cvenkel
partner
Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik
Alexander Beck
partner
Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Piemonte
Renata Pelosini
partner
Regione autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia - Protezione civile della Regione
Guglielmo Berlasso
partner
Regione Piemonte - Direzione Opere pubbliche , Difesa del suolo, Economia montana e Foreste - Settore Politiche Forestali
Federico Pelfini
partner
Regione del Veneto - Direzione Foreste ed Economia Montana
Guido Munari
partner
Technische Universität München, Fachgebiet für Ökoklimatologie
Anette Menzel
partner