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creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Frondoni, Raffaella
creators_name: Gabrielli, Andrea
creators_name: Montuori, Marco
creators_name: Retzlaff, Rebecca
creators_name: Ricotta, Carlo
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
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title: Percolation in real wildfires
ispublished: pub
subjects: GE
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: PACS: 89.60.Ec Environmental safety; 05.45.Df Fractals; 89.75.Fb Structures and organization in complex systems

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 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.
date: 2001-09
date_type: published
publication: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
volume: 56
number: 4
publisher: IOPscience
pagerange: 510-516
id_number: 10.1209/epl/i2001-00549-4
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0295-5075      
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00549-4
related_url_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108011
citation:   Caldarelli, Guido and Frondoni, Raffaella and Gabrielli, Andrea and Montuori, Marco and Retzlaff, Rebecca and Ricotta, Carlo  Percolation in real wildfires.  EPL (Europhysics Letters), 56 (4).  pp. 510-516.  ISSN 0295-5075       (2001)