This project is investigating firebrand and spotfire potential and behaviour under extreme fire weather conditions. It is studying, both individually and en masse, the propagation and transitions of behaviour as a fire develops and involves different fuel layers.
From this knowledge, information on expected size and extent of fire in the landscape, and suppression capacity, will be used to construct frameworks for determining the most effective allocation of suppression resources, on both a seasonal and incident basis.
Purpose-built scientific instrumentation, methods and protocols will be developed and deployed to collect high quality physical data from active high intensity wildfires to validate research results
