- Title:
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Modelling Wildfire Dynamics Via Interacting Automata
- Date:
- April 2005
- Organisations
- University of Western Australia
- Authors:
- Adam Dunn and George Milne
Overview
The modelling of wildland re spread across a heterogeneous landscape is significant because re dynamics are sensitive to local spatial characteristics. The development of accurate re models and simulations is important due to the economical and social losses wildland re can cause and the resulting need to better understand, predict, and con-tain re spread. We present a methodology for encoding the spread of wildland re in a set of interacting automata.
The Circal formalism is used to explicitly describe the transmission of re as an interaction be-tween discrete cells of landscape. We demonstrate the potential for the methodology to accurately model spatial dynamics by giving results of our implementation of a re spread model that includes a heterogenous environment.
