Netherlands Subjects 1. Wildfires in the Netherlands? 2. National - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Wildfire in the Netherlands

Subjects 1. Wildfires in the Netherlands? 2. National programme; 3. Spreadmodel; 4. Research; 5. Results.

21th century: less maintenance of pine woods Forest area’s are less maintained, less accessible, made attractive and exciting for public and also wildlife and ecological stimulation, heat area’s are grass covered, and dry grass burns easily Properties of forest, heat and other natural area’s

General overview of forest, heat and other wild area’s Properties of forest, heat and other natural area’s

Land use of natural area: intensive recreation, housing, health care, lines of transportation, sport Red dots: campings 40 km Red square: detailed map Properties of forest, heat and other natural area’s

Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Properties of forest, heat and other natural area’s

2. National program Governmental response to recent large wildfires; Innovations …

National program on Wildfiremanagement in the Netherlands 21-8-2012 PILLAR 2 MULTIDISCIPLINE CRISIS MANAGEMENT CRISIS- PILLAR 1 WILDFIREPREVENTION AFTHERMATH Expertise centre Met. office + Wilfdire safe community Safety regions Risk- Wildfire measurement communication thermometer data Info- Damage Data analysis and repair Region based Dynamic risk- approach wildfire Indexmap wildfires behaviour- modelling CBS- Statistic Alerting model vision, capacity analyse input on demand Fire brigade: other : • 1 engine medic, police, Protection Research on cause + • 2 engines army, community Vital infra • 4 engines of fires contractors, • 8 engines Spatial terrain-owners Base course Development wildfire Large scale Crisis- Evacuation communication Topic 3: (SCIENTIFIC) RESEARCH

Spreadmodel? Calculation for the spread patern of wildfire in time

Data  Topographical data and fuell models;  Meteo: - Temperature; - Windspeed; - Winddirection; - Humidity.

3. Research  Farsite (Rocky Mountain Research Center USA);  Translation to the Dutch situation;  Testing in the Safety regions during large scaled exercises and during prescribed burnings.

Static model Scenario’s Demo’s in the field

Dynamic model Recalculation within a few minutes real time

Validation process  Validation by: - Universities WUR/VU Amsterdam - Field research NIFV - Lab. Efectis

In the field Bron: Google earth aangepast door Natuurbrandonderzoekteam

Research in the field for collecting data

Recalculation

European Course ‘Wildfire Research’ Narekenen middels verspreidingsmodel.  Validation by testing different types of wildfires, point, lines and polygon Natuurbrand Onderzoekteam

4. Results  Proof of concept Basic model to be developed for the field

User interface

Tools

Innovations… EO data  Biomass;  Types of vegetation/ fuell models;  Humidity of vegetation.

Questions? ester.stalenhoef@nifv.nl joris.kroon@dgv.minvenj.nl