• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.179-184
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• 2003

This study investigated the relationship of fuel weight and depth together with slope on the spread of forest fire. Fire spread was faster on the greater slope in forested land. Fire had a greater spread rate with lighter fuel weight. The thickness of the fuel bed and forest fire spread rate were not related. The fire spread rate was closely related to the slope and weight of the fuel bed (significant at 0.01, 0.05, respectively). The thickness of the fuel bed was not significant (0.05).

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.213-217
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• 2003

Forest fire spread and intensity were modeled as a function of wind and fuel. Spread rate and intensity of forest fire were related to weight and thickness of forest fuel beds and to wind speed. Forest fire spread rate and fire intensity were differentiated according to wind speed. Rapid wind speed causes a faster forest fire spread rate and greater fire intensity than does slow wind speed. Relative burning time of the fire from beginning to end in the model was 161 sec at a wind speed of 0.5 m/sec and 146 sec at 1m/sec on the model. Average forest lire spread rate was 0.014 m/sec at a wind speed of 0.5 m/sec and 0.020 m/sec at 1m/sec. Average fire intensity was 0.183 ㎾/m at a wind speed of 0.5 m/sec, 0.259 ㎾/m at 1m/sec. Fire intensity was greater when forest fire spread rate was rapid.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.19 no.4 s.60
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• pp.1-6
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• 2005

To control forest fire effectively, it is necessary to understand forest fire behavior and relevance to forest fire environmental factors. In this paper, the behavior characteristics of the 2005 Yangyang forest fire were analyzed into the spread patterns and severity grades. The spread processes of the forest fire could be divided into two steps. At the first step, the fire ran fast to the east due to the strong west wind and then spreaded out in irregular direction. The maximum spread rate of the fire was 1.21km/hr and the mean was 0.65 km/hr. The result of the fire severity classification indicated that about $80\%$(1,110ha) of the whole study site was extremely burned and the remaining $15\%(211 ha)\;and\;5\%(61 ha)$ were damaged slightly and moderately respectively.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.90 no.6
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• pp.781-787
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• 2001

The spread rate of forest fire was analyzed on Samcheok forest fire that broke out on April 7, 2000 in Kunduck-Myun, Samcheok-City, Kangwon-Province and lasted for about 9 days. The spatial database including topography, overstory species distribution, micro-climate, daily fire front lines for the area was built using GIS and the daily spread pattern was investigated to determine a multiple regression equation to estimate forest fire spread rate. The results of the investigation showed that, on the first day, the forest fire spreaded out extremely fast up to 12.3m/min at about 10 a.m. until noon. After that, the forest fire spread rate fluctuated and slowed down as low as below 1m/min and quenched on April 15. The daily area-based spread rate along the fire spread line got to the peak of about 5,700ha on April 11, of which spread rates were recorded as 2.84m/min in the first half and 1.10m/min in the second half. Also, it was found that slope aspect, wind velocity and % area distribution of Pinus densiflora are the major factors affecting the spread rate of forest fire in this area.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.178-185
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• 2013

Forest fires are expected to increase in severity and frequency under global climate change and thus better understanding of fire dynamics is critical for mitigation and adaptation. Researchers with different background, such as ecologists, physicists, and mathematical biologists, have developed various simulation models to reproduce forest fire spread dynamics. However, these models have limitations in the fire spreading because of the complicated factors such as fuel types, wind, and moisture. In this study, we suggested a simple model considering the wind effect and two different fuel types. The two fuels correspond to susceptible tree and resistant tree with different probabilities of transferring fire. The trees were randomly distributed in simulation space with a density ranging from 0.0 (low) to 1.0 (high). The susceptible tree had higher value of the probability than the resistant tree. Based on the number of burnt trees, we then carried out the sensitivity analysis to quantify how the forest fire patterns are affected by wind and tree density. The statistical analysis showed that the total tree density had greatest effect on the forest fire spreading and wind had the next greatest effect. The density of the susceptible tree was relatively lower factor affecting the forest fire. We believe that our model can be a useful tool to explore forest fire spreading patterns.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.96-102
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• 2009

Forest fire ignition and spread characteristics are needed as basic data in fire management. Slope aspect of ignition point, spread direction, and wind direction at that time were analyzed and regression equations were proposed for predicting burned area, fire perimeter, head spread rate, and flank spread rate using combustion time using 101 forest fires broken out between 2007 and 2009 spring. 57% forest fires of investigated numbers were ignited in south, southwest, and southeast aspects and 68% of forest fires were spreaded to east, southeast, and northeast influenced by westerly wind. About 11.8ha forest was burned and 0.5km fire perimeter increase was predicted per hour. Head and flank spread rate were calculated 0.13km and 0.05km, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.75-79
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• 2008

As Information Technology developed, Information requirement has been went higher. In the field of GIS(Geographic Information System) more information is processed more quickly and accurately. Especially, quick analysis of forest fire information (topography, ignition point, weather condition, etc.) over a wide area is essential in order to minimize victim, environmental damage, and economical damage, decide course of evacuating, estimate a fire spread course, and attack resource arrangement. We determined a fire spread distance at each unit time through an experiment with various slope degrees and distinction of flat, upslope and downslope. For the tests on the upslope, as the slope increased, the rate of spread increased. On the downslope in contrast with the upslope, as the slope increased, the rate of spread decreased. We analyzed a spread rate of forest fire on each slope as the method classified upslope(+) and downslope(-) using the results obtained from the experiment. Consequently, the proposed method is able to be used to effectively support the attack of forest fire by providing accurate predictions of fire spread.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.51-56
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• 1998

본 연구는 산림, 기상, 지형, 소방 정보 등을 토대로 최적의 산불 진화 전략 수립을 위한 산불 진화 전문가 시스템의 설계 방법론 제시를 주목적으로 한다. 기존의 산불 정보 시스템들은 GIS 데이터와 기상 관련 데이터, 산불 발생 지점에 대한 지형 데이터를 이용하여, 산불 확산에 따른 피해 정도 및 확산 범위에 예측을 목표로 접근하고 있다. 그러나, 이를 활용하여 최적의 진화 전략을 생성시킬 수 있는 연구는 아직까지 제시된 바가 없다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존의 산불 정보 시스템을 기반으로 이산 사건 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 기법, 규칙기반 SES (RUSES: Rule-based System Entity Structure), 그리고 유전 알고리즘 등을 이용하여 최적의 산분 진화 전략을 생성할 수 있는 산불 진화 전문가 시스템의 설계 방법론을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2001.03a
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• pp.56-61
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• 2001

현재 산림청에서는 NGIS와 연계한 국가차원의 산림지리정보시스템(FGIS)을 구축하는 사업을 추진중이며, 행정자치부에서는 정보화촉진기본법에 따라 국가적 행정종합정보화 차원에서 제안된 2단계 소방/재난관리시스템 구축의 필요성을 제시하고 있다. 이러한 범국가적인 사업과 연계하여 각 지방자치단체 규모의 산림행정체계 규모의 산림행정체계에 적합하고, 국지적 기상조건 및 확산요인을 고려한 시스템을 개발하여 일선 실무자의 행정생산성 향상차원에서 실제 활용될 수 있는 개별시스템으로 구현해야할 필요성이 있다. 따라서, 본 연구는 각 지방자치단체의 산림담당자가 산불의 사전예방 및 홍보활동을 위한 산불 다발지역을 분석하고, 광범위한 산림지역을 효과적으로 감시하기 위한 산불감시카메라 의 위치를 산정할 수 있으며, 산불 발생시 국지적 확산요인을 고려한 실시간 산불확산 형태 를 예측할 수 있는 시스템을 설계하고자 한다. 또한 평상시 소방시설물을 관리하고 산불발 생시 신속한 진압을 위한 각종정보(예 : 최단이동거리분석)를 제공하며, 산불감지 시점으로 부터 상황종료 시까지의 종합사고보고를 위하여 위성영상과의 비교분석 등 사후관리까지의 체계를 수립하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.87 no.4
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• pp.528-534
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• 1998

There are many parameters in prediction of forest fire spread. Among others wind and slope factors are considered to be the important parameters in spread of forest fire. Generally, all the inclined planes with same slopes can not have the same wind velocity in complex mountain area. But this effect has been disregarded in complex geometry. In this paper, wind values which have velocity and direction is calculated by applying computational fluid dynamics to the forest geometry. These results are applied for forest fire spreading algorithm with experimental Korean ROS(Rate Of Spread). Finally, the comparison between the simulation and the real forest fire has correspondence about 90%.