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    An integrated approach for mapping fire suppression difficulty in three different ecosystems of Eastern Europe
    (2017-01-02) Mitsopoulos I.; Mallinis G.; Zibtsev S.; Yavuz M.; Saglam B.; Kucuk O.; Bogomolov V.; Borsuk A.; Zaimes G.
    Increased fire activity, related both to human activities and to climate change, necessitates effective fire prevention and suppression strategies. The main purpose of this paper is to model and map fire suppression difficulty using common approaches in three different ecosystems in Eastern Europe by employing very high-resolution satellite imagery and landscape fire behaviour modelling. The integrated approach could allow fire managers to organize prevention and management of firefighting activities more efficiently by implementing both simple and easy-to-use risk and operational fire suppression difficulty indices. The development of cross-border common methodological approaches could foster cooperation between national authorities that would also maximize the efficiency of firefighting procedures.
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    Predicting canopy fuel characteristics in Pinus brutia Ten., Pinus nigra Arnold and Pinus pinaster Ait. Forests from stand variables in North-Western Turkey
    (2021-02-01) Kucuk O.; Goltas M.; Demirel T.; Mitsopoulos I.; Bilgili E.
    Canopy fuel characteristics play an important role in crown fire behaviour in conifer forests. In this study, the canopy fuel characteristics of Calabrian pine, Anatolian Black pine and Maritime pine stands in Turkey are estimated using forest stand parameters. Sets of equations are fitted to the measured data revealing correlations between canopy fuel characteristics and stand parameters by performing a stepwise multiple regression analysis. At the stand level, the resulting models explain a high percentage of the observed variability. The developed equations can be used by forest and fire managers to estimate canopy fuel characteristics, predict crown-fire behaviour and design fuel treatment projects in Turkey.