AdriaFirePropagator and AdriaFireRisk: user friendly Web based wildfire propagation and wildfire risk prediction software

Abstract

The HOLISTIC Project with full name Adriatic Holistic Forest Fire Protection was a project funded by Adriatic IPA funds that has gathered together almost all regions around Adriatic Sea in order to improve wildfire prevention, protection, fighting and post-fire recuperation. It has started in December 2013 and ended in December 2016. A part of this project was to establish user friendly and simple regional wildfire propagation and wildfire risk prediction simulation tools that could be easily used by fire fighters in everyday fire fighting operative work, but also as a tool for fire season preparation. The final results were AdriaFirePropagator and AdriaFireRisk and additionally AdriaFireRisk sub-module named AdriaFireRiskPanels, and they are the main topics of this paper. AdriaFirePropagator is a Web based system for wildfire behaviour modelling and wildfire spread simulation. Web based means that all the data are stored on the server, and all the applications in the fire simulation software are server based programs that run when requested by the users and the only user interface is a standard web browser. AdriaFireRisk is additional module, running parallel on the same server using the same GIS calculation engine. AdriaFireRisk calculates site-specific wildfire risk index based on experimental system for micro location wildfire risk index calculation developed for Split – Dalmatia County. AdriaFireRisk is also a support system for additional HOLISTIC project result – AdriaFireRiskPanels designed to raise the awareness about the wildfire risk in order to increase caution and reduce the number of accidental wildfires. The paper describes technical details of these systems, as well as their practical implementation.