Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 56, Number 4, November 2001
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Page(s) | 510 - 516 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00549-4 | |
Published online | 01 December 2003 |
Percolation in real wildfires
1
Sezione INFM di Roma 1 and Dipartimento di Fisica
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
2
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK
3
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università di Roma
"La Sapienza"
P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
4
Remote Sensing Department, University of Trier
Behringstrasse 54286, Trier, Germany
Received:
18
May
2001
Accepted:
6
September
2001
This paper focuses on the statistical properties of wild-land fires and, in particular, investigates if spread dynamics relates to simple invasion model. The fractal dimension and lacunarity of three fire scars classified from satellite imagery are analysed. Results indicate that the burned clusters behave similarly to percolation clusters on boundaries and look denser in their core. We show that Dynamical Percolation reproduces this behaviour and can help to describe the fire evolution. By mapping fire dynamics onto the percolation models, the strategies for fire control might be improved.
PACS: 05.45.Df – Fractals / 89.60.Ec – Environmental safety / 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems
© EDP Sciences, 2001
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