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Content of the English version

• 5FWP context
• Succinct presentation
• Project plan and Activities
• EUFIRELAB Facilities and Devices
• EUFIRELAB Structures
• To know more about EUFIRELAB
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General organisation of FWP 5
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The 4th Thematic Programme, part A
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RTD Activities of a Generic Natureand Support to
Research Infrastructures
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Succinct Presentation

• Title
• Abstract
• Objectives
• Description of the work
• Expected results

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EUFIRELABEuro-Mediterranean Wildland Fire
Laboratory,a wall-less Laboratoryfor Wildland
Fire Sciences and Technologiesin the
Euro-Mediterranean Region
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EUFIRELAB Abstract (1/3)

• The enhancement of the wildland fire sciences and
  technologies, and the rapid and systematic
  transfer towards end-users and stakeholders,
  incite to create this laboratory for
  effectively creating a European Research Area in
  the wildland fire domains.
• EUFIRELAB is structured in units for
• reinforcing the co-operation among
  Euro-Mediterranean teams,
• activating large exchanges of knowledge and
  know-how,
• developing common concepts, approaches, and
  languages,
• fostering the common use of facilities for
  research and/or technological development,

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EUFIRELAB Abstract (2/3)

• EUFIRELAB will avoid unnecessary and expensive
  replications in
• WP02 Wildland fuel description and modelling
• WP03 Wildland fire behaviour modelling
• WP04 Wildland fire, ecosystems functioning, and
  bio-diversity
• WP05 Socio-economy
• WP06 Decision support tools
• WP07 Widland fire measurements methods
• WP08 Widland fire risks and hazards
• WP09 Wildland fire suppression
• WP10 Widland urban interfaces management.

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EUFIRELAB Abstract (3/3)

• EUFIRELAB Observatory of Wildland Fire Sciences
  and Technologies and an innovative Web site
  enable close connections among EUFIRELAB members
• Thanks to its public area, www.eufirelab.org
  ensures a large dissemination and valorisation of
  EUFIRELAB achievements towards the end-users and
  stakeholders.

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EUFIRELAB Objectives (1/2)

• EUFIRELAB will enable large exchange of
  knowledge, know-how, data, results and analysis
  for improving the level of the wildland fire
  sciences and technologies in the
  Euro-Mediterranean area.
• Moreover, the research units will
• develop common concepts, approaches, and
  languages,
• and elaborate common methods and protocols for
  research and/or technological development
  activities integrating the specific spatial
  scales and diverse roles of the
  Euro-Mediterranean wildland areas.
• For each EUFIRELAB research unit, the partners
  fix scientific aims like
• frequently up-dated states of the art
• common methodologies in the different domains
• and specific tools, user-friendly decision
  support systems, for better managing data

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EUFIRELAB Objectives (2/2)

• They also fix technological aims for proposing
  answers to end-users, like
• a scale of magnitude of wildland fire,
• conditions of use of prescribed burning for
  bio-diversity managing,
• recommendations for updating the European
  regulations,
• rules for managing fire suppression and wildland
  urban interfaces.
• Finally, the principal objective is that
  EUFIRELAB will be the network of excellence for
  wildland fire sciences and technologies for the
  6th FWP.

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EUFIRELAB Description of the work (1/4)

• EUFIRELAB elaborates and up-dates regularly the
  states of the art in the nine following domains
• Wildland fuel description and modelling
• Wildland fire behaviour modelling
• Wildland fire, ecosystems functionning, and
  bio-diversity
• Socio-economy
• Decision support tools
• Wildland fire measurements methods
• Wildland fire risks and hazards
• Wildland fire suppression
• Wildland urban interfaces management.
• Therefore, computer scientists design an
  innovative architecture, which enables an easy
  up-dating of these bases and to share information.

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EUFIRELAB Description of the work (2/4)

• The participants elaborate common methods and
  protocols for
• exchanging data, results and analysis
• validating models predictions
• monitoring fire impacts on all the components of
  the ecosystems, post-fire recovery, ecosystems
  functioning, and land restoration
• investigating on wildland fires causes and
  factors, and studying the costs of wildland fire
  prevention
• conducting experimental fires in laboratory and
  outside conditions
• mapping wildland fire risks
• planning wildland fire suppression
• and managing wildland-urban interfaces

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EUFIRELAB Description of the work (3/4)

• They will submit to the scientific community and
  propose to the European Commission
• a European scale of magnitude of wildland fires
• prescriptions of prescribed burning use for
  managing bio-diversity and ecosystems functioning
• basis for a Euro-Mediterranean Wildland Fire
  Danger Rating System
• and recommendations for
• up-dating European regulations for wildland
  preventive equipment and public information
• improving the safety of the fire-fighters
• enhancing the land and wildland-urban interfaces
  management

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EUFIRELAB Description of the work (4/4)

• For improving the existing sensors, and promoting
  optical and IR measurements, the EUFIRELAB
  consortium creates a Centre for Technological
  Development which develops new devices and
  encourages the dialog between researchers,
  engineers and technicians.
• Using the possibilities of its information system
  and its web site, the EUFIRELAB consortium
  creates and up-dates the inventorying persons and
  expertises, infrastructures and facilities,
  requirements and needs of end-users and
  stakeholders
• EUFIRELAB consortium disseminates and valorises
  its achievements, mainly trough e-technologies
• its quarterly e-News and e-Forum
• its e-library, largely open to the public

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EUFIRELAB Expected results

• Innovative architecture for data bases management
  and exchange of information
• Common methods and protocols
• A European scale of magnitude of wildland fires
• Prescribed burning a tool for managing
  bio-diversity and ecosystems functioning
• Basis for a Euro-Mediterranean Wildland Fire
  Danger Rating System
• Recommendations for up-dating European
  regulations in wildland fire domains
• Centre for Technological Development
• Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Wildland Fire
  Sciences and Technologies
• EUFIRELAB e-library
• Enlarged co-operation with European and
  non-European groups

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EUFIRELAB Project work plan and activities
Scientific activities
Technological activities
Transverse activities
Articulation
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EUFIRELAB Scientific activities

• WP02 Wildland fuel description and modelling
  unit
• WP02T1 State of the art and survey
• WP02T2 To elaborate common methodologies
• WP03 Wildland fire behaviour modelling unit
• WP03T1 State of the art and survey
• WP03T2 To compare the different types of models
• WP03T3 To define common procedures for
• WP03T4 Towards a European scale of magnitude of
  wildland fires for characterising the intensity
  of wildland fires and prescribed burnings
• WP04 Fire, ecosystems functioning and
  bio-diversity unit
• WP04T1 State of the art and survey
• WP04T2 Fire impacts on the different components
  of the ecosystems
• WP04T3 Methodologies and tools for analysing
  and monitoring vegetation dynamics and restoring
  burned areas
• WP04T4 Prescribed burning, a tool for managing
  bio-diversity and ecosystems functioning

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EUFIRELAB Scientific activities

• WP05 Socio-economical unit
• WP05T1 State of the art and survey
• WP05T2 Towards common methodologies for
  investigating on wildland fires causes and
  factors
• WP05T3 Towards common methodologies for studying
  the costs-to-benefits ratio of wildland fires
  prevention
• WP06 Decision support tools unit
• WP06T1 State of the art and survey
• WP06T2 To elaborate common specifications for
  further decision support systems
• WP07 Fire metrology unit
• WP07T1 State of the art and survey
• WP07T2 Towards common methodologies for
  collecting data during laboratory experimental
  fires
• WP07T3 Towards common methodologies for
  collecting data during outside fires
• WP07T4 Centre for technological development

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WP02 Wildland fuel description and modelling unit

• WP02T1 State of the art and survey
• a) To inventory the existing methods used by the
  scientific community to describe and model the
  wildland fuel in the classical strata
• b) To up-date this inventory at a six-monthly
  frequency
• c) To synthesise their own pre-existing know-how
  and identify the gaps of knowledge that future
  research projects will have to close during the
  6th FWP.
• WP02T2 To elaborate common methodologies
• To improve methodologies adapted to the
  specificity of the Euro-Mediterranean ecosystems,
  particularly to those of the shrubs species
• These methodologies concern the fuel particles,
  and focus on fuel bed characteristics

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WP03 Wildland fire behaviour modelling unit (1/2)

• WP03T1 State of the art and survey
• To typify the existing models of wildland fire
  behaviour
• To characterise adapted space scales and outputs
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1
• WP03T2 To compare the different types of models
• To enhance models based on the complete physical
  and multiphase approach for correctly predicting
  the wildland fire behaviour
• To specify in which conditions the predictions of
  the different types of models are suitable

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WP03 Wildland fire behaviour modelling unit (2/2)

• WP03T3 To define common procedures for
• collecting data on experimental laboratories or
  outside fires
• constituting valuable databases
• validating its predictions versus experimental
  data
• and confronting them with the other models
• WP03T4 Towards a European scale of magnitude of
  wildland fires for characterising the intensity
  of wildland fires and prescribed burnings

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WP04 Fire, ecosystems functioning and
bio-diversity unit (1/3)

• WP04T1 State of the art and survey
• To review and describe the existing methods for
  assessing the impact of fire on the different
  strata and components of ecosystems, and on
  bio-diversity
• To sort critically among the existing methods the
  most valuable for analysing the relationships
  between fire, ecosystems composition and
  structure
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1
• WP04T2 Fire impacts on the different components
  of the ecosystems
• canopy, bole and roots of individual trees,
  visible and concealed impacts
• high and low shrubs species
• seeds, herbaceous and key-stone species
• litter, soil (mainly its upper layers),
  nutrients, N and C pools
• fauna (relationships between vegetation and
  animals, animal bio-diversity

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WP04 Fire, ecosystems functioningand
bio-diversity unit (2/3)

• WP04T3 Methodologies and tools for analysing
  and monitoring vegetation dynamics and restoring
  burned areas
• To elaborate and assess common methodologies and
  procedures for monitoring the burned areas
  recovery
• To design a database of EU-Mediterranean species
  response to wildland fire
• To elaborate technical routes for improving
  habitat quality of EU-Mediterranean ecosystems
  and maintaining or enriching their bio-diversity
• To evaluate methods and procedures for monitoring
  some of the main EU-Mediterranean ecosystems
  functions
• To develop a framework for modelling
  EU-Mediterranean vegetation dynamics
• To enhance techniques and methodologies for land
  restoration with EU-Mediterranean species

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WP04 Fire, ecosystems functioningand
bio-diversity unit (3/3)

• WP04T4 Prescribed burning, a tool for managing
  bio-diversity and ecosystems functioning
• To improve techniques and procedures for
  promoting prescribed burning uses
• To determine the conditions minimising the risks
  of collateral damages
• To adapt accordingly prescription windows

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WP05 Socio-economical unit (1/2)

• WP05T1 State of the art and survey
• To summarise the existing analyses of the causes
  and factors of wildland fires
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1
• WP05T2 Towards common methodologies for
  investigating on wildland fires causes and
  factors
• To improve the methodologies used by
  socio-economists researchers for investigating on
  wildland fires causes and factors
• To investigate human factors of fire occurrence
• To design and develop adapted common methods for
  studying the behaviour and motivations of the
  different types of potential human igniters

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WP05 Socio-economical unit (2/2)

• WP05T3 Towards common methodologies for studying
  the costs-to-benefits ratio of wildland fires
  prevention
• To elaborate recommendations in order to up-date
  the relevant European regulations and procedures
  for public information

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WP06 Decision support tools unit (1/2)

• WP06T1 State of the art and survey
• To typify and classify the existing tools and
  systems devoted to wildland fire management
• To organise and connect miscellaneous information
  and knowledge sources
• To initiate and validate the transfer of new
  technologies related to the development of
  decision support systems for wildland fire
  domains
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1

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WP06 Decision support tools unit (2/2)

• WP06T2 To elaborate common specifications for
  further decision support systems
• To provide a baseline for accessing and using
  data and knowledge related to the field of
  wildland fire prevention and fighting
• This baseline comprises
• architectural framework supporting data modelling
  and application programming
• detailed specification document
• consensus-based process for developer and user
  community involvement
• series of test-beds for prototyping and testing
  further wildland fire decision support systems

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WP07 Fire metrology unit (1/3)

• Metrology science of the measure, its includes
  measurement technology
• WP07T1 State of the art and survey
• To typify and classify the data collected, during
  laboratories experiments, outside experimental
  fires, prescribed burnings and wildland fires
• To inventory all the existing procedures scales
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1
• WP07T2 Towards common methodologies for
  collecting data during laboratory experimental
  fires
• To develop common methods and sensors
• To include real time collection of the
  meteorological parameters
• To promote optical and/or IR measurements in
  laboratory conditions
• To identify the difficulties to transfer these
  methods and devices outside
• To design adapted devices for outside conditions

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WP07 Fire metrology unit (2/3)

• WP07T3 Towards common methodologies for
  collecting data during outside fires
• To homogenise the methods and the sensors
• To collect in real time the meteorological
  parameters
• To test and promote the adapted devices

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WP07 Fire metrology unit (3/3)

• WP07T4 Centre for technological development
• The entire consortium, and particularly the
  teams, which own and open to the EUFIRELAB
  consortium and the scientific community, specific
  infrastructures, facilities and devices, promote
  among its members a wall-less centre for
  technological development
• The activities of this centre are related to the
  activities of the entire consortium, and devoted,
  as indicated here above, for
• improving existing sensors and devices
• designing and developing new ones.
• This wall-less centre may be an excellent way
  to really enhance co-operation among the
  consortium members by exchanging data and plans,
  and overall, engineers and technicians
• Even if this centre will never be a commercial
  structure, it has
• to control its costs and production durations
• to follow up-dated quality approaches

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EUFIRELAB Technological activities

• WP08 Wildland fire risks and hazards unit
• WP08T1 State of the art and survey
• WP08T2 Common methods for mapping wildland fire
  risks
• WP08T3 Towards a Euro-Mediterranean Wildland
  Fire Danger Rating System
• WP09 Wildland fire suppression management unit
• WP09T1 State of the art and survey
• WP09T2 Towards common methodologies for wildland
  fire suppression planning
• WP09T3 To improve the safety and efficiency of
  the fire fighters
• WP10 Wildland / urban interfaces management unit
• WP10T1 State of the art and survey
• WP10T2 Towards common methodologies for managing
  wildland-urban interfaces

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WP08 Wildland fire risks and hazards unit (1/3)

• WP08T1 State of the art and survey
• To summarise the existing methods used by the
  scientific community to evaluate or determine and
  then to map and diffuse the wildland fire risks
  and hazards
• To inventory the available geographical data-sets
  relevant to fire danger at European scale
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1

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WP08 Wildland fire risks and hazards unit (2/3)

• WP08T2 Common methods for mapping wildland fire
  risks
• To determine how to connect accessible G.I.S.
  data to remote sensing systems
• To analyse methods to integrate geographical
  information for fire danger assessment standard
  danger indices, multi-criteria evaluation
  techniques, evidential reasoning and neural
  networks
• To determine how to develop cartographic
  interfaces for the EUFIRELAB web site, showing
  update information of fire danger

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WP08 Wildland fire risks and hazards unit (3/3)

• WP08T3 Towards a Euro-Mediterranean Wildland
  Fire Danger Rating System
• To confront the existing systems
• To determine in parallel during the high danger
  periods, the diverse predictions by introducing
  their own data in the indexes
• To design the basic structure and determine the
  characteristics of a prototype of a
  Euro-Mediterranean Wildland Fire Danger Rating
  System that the consortium should propose to the
  Commission

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WP09 Wildland fire suppressionmanagement unit
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• WP09T1 State of the art and survey
• To summarise all the fire suppression plans in
  force in the different Mediterranean member
  states, newly associated states and third
  countries, and if possible the feedback analyses
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1
• WP09T2 Towards common methodologies for wildland
  fire suppression planning
• To improve the methodologies used to elaborate
  and validate the wildland fire suppression plans
• To enhance the efficiency of the local
  authorities planning, able to co-ordinate all the
  institutions and organisations involved in
  wildland fire prevention, detection and
  suppression

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WP09 Wildland fire suppressionmanagement unit
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• WP09T3 To improve the safety and efficiency of
  the fire fighters
• To develop tools and systems based on
  e-technologies and new technologies of
  information and communication to improve the
  training of the fire fighters, and consequently
  their safety and efficiency
• To co-operate with public institutions and
  private companies to improve the individual
  equipment of the fire fighter, which has to be
  always safer and more convenient

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WP10 Wildland / urban interfaces management unit

• WP10T1 State of the art and survey
• To summarise all the existing methods for
  managing wildland-urban interfaces, and if
  possible the feedback analyses
• To carry out the items b) and c) indicated in
  WP02T1
• WP10T2 Towards common methodologies for managing
  wildland-urban interfaces and integrating
• the role of local authorities, which are in
  charge of this management
• the specificity of those interfaces according to
  the nature of the urban area and the exposed
  targets
• the deep attachment of local inhabitants to live
  as close as possible to the forested or natural
  areas
• the high pressure of tourism in the
  Euro-Mediterranean areas

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EUFIRELAB Transverse activities

• WP11 Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Wildland
  Fire Sciences and Technologies
• WP11T1 Persons and expertises
• WP11T2 Infrastructures, facilities and devices
• WP11T3 End-users and stakeholders requirements
  and needs
• WP12 Dissemination and valorisation of the
  EUFIRELAB achievements
• WP12T1 EUFIRELAB Web site http//www.eufirelab.or
  g
• WP12T2 EUFIRELAB e-Bulletin and e-Forum
• WP12T3 EUFIRELAB e-Library
• WP12T4 EUFIRELAB lectures and conferences
• WP01 EUFIRELAB management and co-ordination
• WP01T1 To manage EUFIRELAB
• WP01T2 To manage the relationships with the
  EUFIRELAB International Scientific Committee
• WP01T3 To organise the plenary meetings

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WP01 EUFIRELAB management and co-ordination
(1/2)

• WP01T1 To manage EUFIRELAB
• one representative of each partner constitutes
  the EUFIRELAB council
• some searchers constitute the steering committee
• several searchers of each work-package constitute
  the work-package board
• WP01T2 To manage the relationships with the
  EUFIRELAB International Scientific Committee
• To develop co-operation within the consortium in
  their specific domains
• To evaluate and disseminate the EUFIRELAB
  achievements

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WP01 EUFIRELAB managementand co-ordination (2/2)

• WP01T3 To organise the plenary meetings
• November 2002, non formal meeting during the IV
  ICFFR, Luso, Portugal
• January 2003, inaugural meeting to launch the
  activities, Chania, Greece
• January 2004, intermediate yearly meeting to
  deliver the requested reports and adjust the
  activities, if necessary, Florence, Italy
• January 2005, mid-term assessment meeting to
  collectively evaluate the works done by the
  different units during the first half period,
  Barcelona, Spain
• January 2006, intermediate yearly meeting to
  deliver the requested reports and adjust the
  activities, if necessary, Aveiro, Portugal
• October 2006 or January 2007, conclusive
  symposium to deliver the major EUFIRELAB
  achievements and recommendations to the
  Commission for the future, Avignon, France

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WP11 Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Wildland
Fire Sciences and Technologies (1/2)

• WP11T1 Persons and expertises
• To inventory the persons and expertises
• To up-date this inventory at a six-monthly
  frequency
• WP11T2 Infrastructures, facilities and devices
• To inventory and describe the existing
  infrastructures, facilities and devices
• To list their constraints and conditions of use
  in order to foster the common uses
• To up-date this inventory and description, at a
  six-monthly frequency, for
• optimising future equipment
• avoiding expensive duplication at an
  Euro-Mediterranean level
• and fostering their complementary with
  non-European equipment

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WP11 Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Wildland
Fire Sciences and Technologies (2/2)

• WP11T3 End-users and stakeholders requirements
  and needs
• To identify and typify the requirements and needs
  of the end-users and stakeholders in the domains
  in which the achievements of the wildland fire
  sciences and technologies can be applied
• To up-date, at a six-monthly frequency, this
  specification through conferences, symposiums and
  congress, held at national, European or
  world-wide levels

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WP12 Dissemination and valorisationof the
EUFIRELAB achievements (1/3)

• WP12T1 EUFIRELAB Web site www.eufirelab.org
• private area, restricted to the EUFIRELAB
  consortium and to the Commission
• semi-public area, restricted to the EUFIRELAB
  consortium, to the Commission and to the
  International Scientific Committee
• public area, opened to end-users, stakeholders,
  local, regional and national authorities and the
  public
• WP12T2 EUFIRELAB e-Bulletin and e-Forum
• quarterly issues of EUFIRELAB e-Bulletin
• EUFIRELAB e-Forum, largely opened to the public

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WP12 Dissemination and valorisationof the
EUFIRELAB achievements (2/3)

• WP12T3 EUFIRELAB e-Library
• To elaborated a common structure of the
  references bases
• To organise, using e-technologies, a scattered
  EUFIRELAB library largely open to the scientific
  community through the public area of
  www.eufirelab.org
• WP12T4 EUFIRELAB lectures and conferences
• To participate to the training of forested and
  natural areas managers, fire managers and fire
  fighters
• To enrich the content of the courses and lectures
  by enlarging the panels of knowledge and
  achievements, sciences and technologies

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EUFIRELAB e-network (3/3)
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EUFIRELAB Articulation
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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (1/10)

• Wildland fuel particles description and modelling
• Mechanical or optical devices for measuring the
  geometric characteristics of the fuel particles
  surface, volume, surface-to-volume ratio,
• Adiabatic calorific chamber and heat release
  corner for measuring the thermal characteristics
  of the fuel particles high calorific value, heat
  capacity,
• Furnaces, thermo-gravimetric balances for
  monitoring fuel thermal decay
• Chemical and spectroscopic analyser, heater for
  determining the chemical characteristics of the
  fuel particles and their moisture content

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (2/10)

• Wildland fuel beds description and modelling
• Devices and methods for describing the three
  dimensional structure of the wildland fuel in two
  dimensions plans (x, y) and (x,z)
• Mechanical or optical devices for characterising
  the spatial structure of the wildland fuel
• Devices for determining the spatial distribution
  of wildland fuel load of living materials

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (3/10)

• Fire behaviour in wildland fuel under laboratory
  conditions
• Benches for following the three-dimensional
  behaviour of
• a non-moving flame and for determining the
  optical and physical characteristics of the flame
  (absorption, transmission) in different
  wavelengths, from visible to far infrared
• the moving front of surface fires (rate of
  spread, flame geometry, front shape) and the
  reaction of the fuel (rate of combustion), using
  thermocouples or infra-red sensors, and recording
  front, back and side views in visible, near and
  far infra-red wave lengths.
• Benches for analysing the effects of
  meteorological parameters, slope angle, slope
  wind, on the behaviour of surface fires

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (4/10)

• Experimental wildland fires under outside
  conditions
• Benches for following the three-dimensional
  behaviour of the moving front of fires spreading
  in shrubs and litter
• Experimental plots up to 1ha, equipped for
• following the space and time behaviour of fires
  spreading in the different strata
• recording the meteorological parameters with
  mobile weather stations
• analysing the wildland fire intensity and
  severity

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (5/10)

• Prescribed burning plots
• Plots from 1 to 100 ha, in natural or forested
  areas, with devices and facilities for
• describing and mapping the relief and the spatial
  distribution of wildland fuel
• frequently and regularly measuring fuel moisture
  content and meteorological parameters
• continuously or regularly evaluating the fire
  dynamic
• analysing the impacts on the ecosystems and
  accordance with the aims of the burn conducted
  following existing prescriptions or testing a
  larger window of prescription.

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (6/10)

• Wildland fire observations plots
• Same kinds of facilities for observing the fire
  behaviour, at larger time and space scales
• Specific equipment for analysing the efficiency
  and the difficulties encountered by the
  fire-fighters, and spectro-analyser for
  evaluating the gas toxicity

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (7/10)

• Wildland fire impacts
• Completely equipped climatic chamber for
  following the physiology of small trees (up to
  2,5 m) stressed by surface fires (gas exchanges,
  sap flow dynamic), associated with here above
  experimental benches for accurately analysing the
  fire effects on the bole, roots and leaves
• Devices for following the evolution of the fire
  effects on the components of the ecosystems
  flora, fauna, soil and on the C, N and nutrients
  balances and pools.
• Devices for analysing and monitoring vegetation
  dynamics and restoring burned areas

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (8/10)

• Behaviour modelling of wildland fire
• Specific facilities and spectro-radiometer for
  determining as inputs in the models
• basic physical parameters (Nusselt numbers, drag
  forces, heat transfer coefficients)
• concentration of pyrolysis and combustion
  products, spectral radiation intensity of fuel,
  gas, soot, embers, ashes, and total radiant
  energy, by adapted IR measurements
• gas velocity inside the flame, by adapted laser
  Doppler and particle image velocimetries
• Specific facilities for integrating particular
  phenomena like smoke dispersion and spotting
• Powerful and high frequency computers for running
  simulations parallel calculus

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (9/10)

• Widland fire risk assessment and mapping
• NOAA HRPT receiving station for acquiring high
  resolution digital data from NOAA-n satellites
• Image processing and geographic information
  system plate-forms with corresponding software
  and hardware for real time image analysis

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EUFIRELAB existing Facilities and Devices (10/10)

• Decision support systems
• Adapted software and hardware for
• building with the partners adapted conceptual
  models for each specific aim
• integrating all the personal data bases into
  the EUFIRELAB user-friendly environment
• developing an architectural framework for data
  modelling and application programming
• elaborating test-beds for prototyping and testing
  further decision support systems

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EUFIRELAB Structures

• EUFIRELAB Consortium
• EUFIRELAB Steering Committee
• EUFIRELAB International Scientific Committee

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The EUFIRELAB Consortium
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EUFIRELAB Consortium Members (1/3)

• Nr Organism Town, Country Team leader
• 001 INRA.AV.PIF Avignon, France Jean Charles
  VALETTE
• 002 UAM1.IUSTI Marseille, France Michel LARINI
• 003 ARMINES.M.PS Sophia-Antipolis, France Franck
  GUARNIERI
• 004 ARMINES.A.EI Alès, France Sophie
  SAUVAGNARGUES
• 007 USEV.DISA Sevilla, Spain Begoña ARRUE
• 008 TYPSA.DDEF Madrid, Spain David CABALLERO
  VALERO
• 009 CEAM Valencia, Spain Ramon VALLEJO
• 010 INIA.CIF Madrid, Spain Carmen HERNANDO LARA
• 011 UCAR.DF Madrid, Spain Fernando LOPEZ-MARTINEZ
• 012 IST.DEM Lisboa, Portugal João VENTURA
• 013 ADAI.LEIF Coimbra,Portugal Domingos Xavier
  VIEGAS
• 014 UTRN.DAST Torino, Italy Andrea CAMIA
• 015 ALGOSYS.AR Piraeus, Greece Georges EFTICHIDIS
• 016 CGREF.AP.FM Aix en Provence, France Corinne
  LAMPIN

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EUFIRELAB Consortium Members (2/3)

• Nr Organism Town, Country Team leader
• 017 EIPFI.CEREN Gardanne, France Frédérique
  GIROUD
• 018 XG.CAGM.CIFL Pontevedra, Spain José Antonio
  VEGA
• 019 EPHE.SSV.LBEV Montpellier, France Roger
  PRODON
• 020 UCM.CMA.DMA Toledo, Spain José MORENO
• 021 UAT.DES Athens, Greece Margarita ARIANOUTSOU
• 022 UAVR.DAO Aveiro, Portugal Ana MIRANDA
• 023 UALH.DG Alcala de Henares, Spain Javier SALAS
• 024 ULLEIDA.PV Lleida, Spain Domingo MOLINA
• 025 UTMAD.DF Vila Real, Portugal Herminio
  BOTELHO
• 026 FFRI.VRC Vantaa, Finland Ilkka VANHA-MAJAMA
• 027 UNICE.GVE Nice, France Pierre CARREGA
• 028 CREAF Bellaterra, Spain Josep PIÑOL
• 029 CNRS.LEMTA Nancy, France Olivier
  SÉRO-GUILLAUME 030 CSIC.IEGA Madrid,Spain Pilar
  MARTIN

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EUFIRELAB Consortium Members (3/3)

• Nr Organism Town, Country Team leader
• 031 UCOR.IF Corboba, Spain Francisco RODRIGUEZ y
  SILVA
• 032 CNR.IES.SCS Pisa, Italy Giacomo GIOVANNINI
• 033 UZUR.DG.GIS Zurich, Switzerland Britta
  ALLGÖWER
• 034 MAIC.DEM Chania, Greece Ioannis GITAS
• 035 CNR.IATAA Firenze, Italy Claudio CONESE
• 036 UTHESS.FN.FM Thessaloniki, Greece Michael
  KARTERIS
• 037 NARF.IMFE Athens, Greece Gavriil
  XANTHOPOULOS
• 042 ENSMP.PS Sophia-Antipolis, France Franck
  GUARNIERI
• 043 ENSTIMA-LGEI Alès, France Sophie
  SAUVAGNARGUES
• 044 CNRS.IUSTI Marseille, France Etienne
  LEBRUN
• 045 CNRS.GVE Nice, France Jean-Paul BOISSON

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EUFIRELAB Steering Committee
Number Organism First name Last
name Country P021 UAT.DES Margarita ARIANOUTSOU Gr
eece P007 USEV.DISA Begoña ARRUE Spain P008 TYPSA.
DDEF David CABALLERO Spain P014 UTRN.DAST Andrea C
AMIA Italy P015 ALGOSYS.AR George EFTICHIDIS Greec
e P025 UTMAD.DF Paulo FERNANDES Portugal P017 EIPF
I.CEREN Frédérique GIROUD France P003 ARMINES.M.PS
Franck GUARNIERI France P010 INIA.CIF Carmen HERN
ANDO Spain P016 CGREF.AP.FM Corinne LAMPIN France
P002 UAM1.IUSTI Michel LARINI France P022 UAVR.DAO
Ana MIRANDA Portugal P020 UCM.CMA.DMA José MORENO
Spain P023 UALH.DG Javier SALAS Spain P009 CEAM R
amon VALLEJO Spain P012 IST.DEM Joao VENTURA Portu
gal P013 ADAI.LEIF Domingos-Xavier VIEGAS Portugal
P037 NARF.IMFE Gravriil XANTHOPOULOS Greece
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EUFIRELAB International Scientific Committee (1/3)
First and LASTname Town Region or
State Country Martin ALEXANDER Edmonton Alberta Ca
nada Yves BIROT (chairman) Avignon PACA France Ros
s BRADSTOCK Hurstville NSW Australia Bret
BUTLER Missoula Montana USA Wendy
CATCHPOLE Canberra ACT Australia Phil
CHENEY Canberra ACT Australia Terry
CLARK Boulder Colorado USA Marco
CONEDERA Bellinzona Ticino Switzerland Michel
CURTAT Marne la Vallée Ile de France France Cornel
is de RONDE Bredasdorp South Africa Yvon
DUCHE Aix-en-Provence PACA France Carl
EDMINSTER Flagstaf Arizona USA Mark
FINNEY Missoula Montana USA Mike FLANNIGAN Sault
Ste Marie Ontario Canada Francis
FUJIOKA Riverside California USA Malcom
GILL Canberra ACT Australia
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EUFIRELAB International Scientific Committee (2/3)
First and LASTname Town Region or
State Country Johann GOLDAMMER Freiburg Baden-Würt
temberg Germany Armando GONZALEZ-CABAN Riverside C
alifornia USA Jim GOULD Kingston ACT Australia Ana
toly GRISHIN Tomsk Siberia Russia Franck
HARLOW Los Alamos New Mexico USA Martha
HENDERSON-TUBESING Olympia Washington USA Don
LATHAM Missoula Montana USA Colin
LEGG Edinburgh UK Vittorio LEONE Potenza Basilica
ta Italy Rodman LINN Los Alamos New
Mexico USA Tomàs MARGALEF Bellaterra Cataluña Spai
n Céline MARI Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées France Walter
OECHEL San Diego California USA Tuomas
PALOPOSKI Espoo Finland Francisco
REGO Lisboa Portugal Gwynfor RICHARDS Brandon Man
itoba Canada
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EUFIRELAB International Scientific Committee (3/3)
First and LASTname Town Region or
State Country Kevin RYAN Missoula Montana USA Jésu
s SAN-MIGUEL-AYANZ Ispra-Varese Italy Rick
SNEEUWJAGT Bentley Western Australia Australia Kir
sten THONICKE Potsdam Brandenburg Germany Barbara
UBYSZ Sekocin Poland Michael WEBER Sault Ste
Marie Ontario Canada David WEISE Riverside Califor
nia USA Mike WOTTON Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada
Martin ZOBEL Tartu Estonia
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To know more about EUFIRELAB

• http//www.eufirelab.org

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