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- Title
Environmental indicators combined with risk analysis to evaluate potential wildfire incidence on the Dadu Plateau in Taiwan.
- Authors
Lin, Chao-Yuan; Shieh, Pei-Ying; Wu, Shao-Wei; Wang, Po-Cheng; Chen, Yung-Chau
- Abstract
Wildfire is a common disaster in the world, and it has a considerable impact on the safety of residents and ecological disturbance. Periodic wildfires are an urgent problem to be solved. This research uses big data from relevant departments to extract environmental indicators that affect wildfires, including satellite images, meteorological observations, and field surveys and establishes a risk model for the Spatio-temporal distribution of wildfires based on risk analysis. Previous studies using Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) to assess fire severity and distinguish wildfire ruins did not deal with the impact of atmospheric humidity on dNBR values. In this study, an adjustable fire threshold was developed to enable dNBR to improve the accuracy of identifying wildfire locations. Regarding the temporal distribution of wildfire risks, environmental vulnerability cannot specifically reflect the frequency of actual wildfires. If the hazard degree is introduced to calculate the wildfire risk, the coefficient of determination can be increased from 0.49 to 0.79. The verification of the village boundary zone depicts that the risk analysis can effectively show the temporal and spatial distribution of wildfire hotspots. On this basis, a village-level wildfire disaster prevention strategy can be formulated.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; ENVIRONMENTAL indicators; WILDFIRE prevention; RISK assessment; EMERGENCY management; WILDFIRES; HUMIDITY
- Publication
Natural Hazards, 2022, Vol 113, Issue 1, p287
- ISSN
0921-030X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11069-022-05300-3