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Successful management of vegetation fires is impossible without their behavior prediction, which includes fire spread over the area, fire development, and effects. The paper considers an experience in creation and use of the information database developed during the elaboration ofthe Russian fire behavior prediction system.Reliable fire behavior prediction should be based on a comprehensive description of fuel complex (especially primary fire carriers), on maximum account of local topography and weather conditions. For this vegetation fuel classification and methods of their mapping are developed in Russia as well as a method of making an information database for vegetation fire behavior prediction on the basis of the vegetation fuel maps in GIS.On the example of the Chunsky Forest Office and the nature reserve 'Stolby' of the Krasnoyarsk region an information database in GIS for plain and mountain conditions was made to predict active fire behavior. Retrospective performance tests of the software for active fire behavior prediction are presented.
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- Asia
- computer programs
- fire danger rating
- fire growth model
- fire management
- forest management
- forest types
- information database
- Krasnoyarsk region
- primary fire carriers
- rate of spread
- Russia
- vegetation surveys
- wildfires
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