Percolation in real Wildfires
Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
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 more dense 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.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0108011,
title = {Percolation in real Wildfires},
author = {Guido Caldarelli and Raffaella Frondoni and Andrea Gabrielli and Marco Montuori and Rebecca Retzlaff and Carlo Ricotta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0108011},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures, epl sytle (epl.cls included)