Bushfire
management has four related goals – to prevent an
uncontrolled bushfire occurring, to prepare in case it does, to
suppress it if it arrives, and to enable rapid recovery after the
event.
Fire managers need
reliable tools that make the best use of emerging technologies to
support their decisions in how best to manage the landscape,
before, during and after a bushfire.
This program is
providing a better understanding of key issues such as fire
behaviour, fire weather, bushfire danger rating, and strategies for
aerial and ground suppression.
Bushfire CRC scientists are conducting field experiments in
Australia and New Zealand in partnership with the fire and land
agencies to generate better fire spread models and enhanced systems
to evaluate the fuel characteristics. Meteorologists are working
with international colleagues and end-users across Australia and
New Zealand to better predict the potential for bad fire weather.
Hundreds of field reports from real bushfires have been collected
from aerial suppression supervisors and ground crews to find out
exactly how effective it is to fight bushfires from the
air.
