Forest Science · 1984 · 40 citations · 0 references
Natural ResourcesEcologyForestryFire EcologyFire ManagementForest ManagementFire DynamicsFire RegimesFire Spread ProcessesWildfire EcologyWildfire ManagementWildland Fire BehaviorFire SpreadFire Spread ExperimentsFire Spread MechanismsWildfire Spread DynamicsWildland Fire Ecology
Abstract An algorithm is developed that converts three time measurements to the direction and rate of spread of a fire across any triangle. Procedures are also developed for analyzing the uniformity of fire spread, given four time observations. Flexible sampling techniques allow the procedures to be adapted to a wide variety of fire-related phenomena on prescribed fires or wildfires. Using the procedure, we stratified rate of spread data for a prescribed fire into two significantly different groups. Forest Sci. 30:51-64.