Automated construction of ground access routes for the management of regional forest fires
Ekaterina Podolskaia, Dmitriy Ershov, Konstantin Kovganko
https://doi.org/10.17221/59/2020-JFSCitation:Podolskaia E., Ershov D., Kovganko K. (2020): Automated construction of ground access routes for the management of regional forest fires. J. For. Sci., 66: 329–338.
Modern geospatial technologies and permanently updated wildfire monitoring datasets are the basis of improving forest firefighting on different administrative scales. One of the tasks is to use the spatial representation of forest fire locations during the fire season and offer timely suitable technical options for accessing them. We developed a GIS technology to create forest fire ground access routes for special firefighting vehicles moving from a ground firefighting base (fire-chemical station) to the place of the forest fire detection; the technology includes a statistical and geospatial accessibility analysis of the routes. The key data are a transport model consisting of public roads and forest glades on the regional scale. We described the main principles of the transport model construction and usage, and their implementation for the Russian Federal Districts. An access routes database for the 2002–2019 fire seasons, a central part of the Siberian Federal District, was produced and analysed. By using a hot spot analysis, we confirmed that forest fires are poorly accessible away from the centre of the Siberian District. The created road accessibility maps show “a proposed ground access zone” within the key area to fight forest fires for the fire seasons to come.
access route; GIS; forest fire; fire-chemical station; forest management
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