GEO-SAFE (Wildfire Conference, Melbourne Nov. 2019) Addressing the Challenges of Bushfire Management

GEO-SAFE

Wildfire Conference | Addressing the Challenges of Bushfire Management

11-15 November 2019, Melbourne (Australia)

The conference aims to bring together researchers and bushfire experts from Australia and Europe to discuss about innovative solutions to support bushfire management. Topics include stochastic risk mapping, efficient methods for bushfire prevention and mitigation, models for initial attack, efficient evacuations, tools for end users and more. One of the main goals of the GEO-SAFE Wildfire Conference is to foster cooperation among disciplines of fire management, ecology, social sciences, mathematics and computer sciences.

DAY 1 - 12th November 2019

• A Bayesian Network Approach to Manage Fire Risk on a Network
• A graph theoretical approach to the Firebreak Locating Problem
• Special Session: Victorian Traditional Owner Cultural Fire Strategy
• On web app suporting the localisation of firebreaks
• A matheuristic approach for Budget Constrained Fuel Treatment Scheduling
• Special Session: Cape Otway Fire Program
• Special Session: Could Indigenous Rangers Save Tasmania's Wilderness

DAY 2 - 13th November 2019

• Determining house destruction functions using fire simulator outputs for landscape risk planning
• Validation of three historical fires in Corsica
• Engagement of first responders in the design of and development of innovative technology
• Special Session: Forest Fire Risk Reduction. Opportunities for International Cooperation
• Management implications of Modeling initial attack success in Catalonia, Spain
• The role of fire geometry in the development of violent pyroconvectio
• Aftermath of WUI fires in Europe: problem‐oriented research for structures protection

DAY 3 - 14th November 2019

• A Multiobjective Stochastic Approach for Fire Management
• Models and algorithms for evacuation planning for wildfires
• Evaluation of a simple model for fire spread in Canadian fuels
• A Time Dependent Lexicographic Goal Programming Model for Evacuation and Commodities Distribution
• Variants of the Robust p-Center under Pressure problem A new approach for robust shelter location
• Coupled Pedestrian, Vehicle and Wildfire Modelling for WUI Crisis Management