TY  - JOUR
KW  - PACS: 89.60.Ec Environmental safety; 05.45.Df Fractals; 89.75.Fb Structures and organization in complex systems

IS  - 4
VL  - 56
A1  - Caldarelli, Guido
A1  - Frondoni, Raffaella
A1  - Gabrielli, Andrea
A1  - Montuori, Marco
A1  - Retzlaff, Rebecca
A1  - Ricotta, Carlo
N2  - 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.
ID  - eprints1143
Y1  - 2001/09//
AV  - none
EP  - 516
SN  - 0295-5075      
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00549-4
TI  - Percolation in real wildfires
SP  - 510
PB  - IOPscience
JF  - EPL (Europhysics Letters)
ER  -