Protection against fire in the mountainous forests of Greece case study: forest complex of W. Nestos

Vasileios C. Drosos; Vasileios J. Giannoulas; Anastasia Stergiadou; Evaggelos Karagiannis; Aristotelis-Kosmas G. Doukas

doi:10.1117/12.2069664

12 August 2014 Protection against fire in the mountainous forests of Greece case study: forest complex of W. Nestos

Vasileios C. Drosos, Vasileios J. Giannoulas, Anastasia Stergiadou, Evaggelos Karagiannis, Aristotelis-Kosmas G. Doukas

Proceedings Volume 9229, Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014); 92291G (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2069664
Event: Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014), 2014, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

Forest fires are an ancient phenomenon. Appear, however, with devastating frequency and intensity over the last 30 years. In our country, the climatic conditions in combination with the intense relief, favor their rapid spread. Considering the fact that environmental conditions provided for decades even worse (increased temperature, drought and vegetation), then the problem of forest fires in our country, is expected to become more intense. The work focuses on the optimization model of the opening up of the forest mountain areas taking into account the prevention and suppression of forest fires. Research area is the mountain forest complex of W. Nestos of Drama Prefecture. The percentage of forest protection area is examined under the light whether the total hose length corresponds to the actual operational capacity to reach a fire source. For this reason are decided to present a three case study concerning area of the forest being protected by fire extinguishing vehicles. The first one corresponds to a fire suppression bandwidth (buffer zone) with a capacity radius of 150m uphill and 250m downhill from the origin point where the fire extinguishing vehicle stands. The second one corresponds to a fire suppression capacity of 200m uphill and 400m downhill and the third one corresponds to a fire suppression capacity of 300m uphill and 500m downhill. The most important forest technical infrastructures to prevent fire are roads network (opening up) for fire protection and buffer zones. Patrols of small and agile 4 × 4 appropriately equipped (pipe length of 500 meters and putting pressure on uphill to 300 meters) for the first attack of the fire in the summer months coupled with early warning of fire observatories adequately cover the forest protection of W. Nestos complex. But spatial distribution needed improvements to a road density of the optimum economic Dec, both forest protection and for better management (skidding) of woody capital.

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Vasileios C. Drosos, Vasileios J. Giannoulas, Anastasia Stergiadou, Evaggelos Karagiannis, and Aristotelis-Kosmas G. Doukas "Protection against fire in the mountainous forests of Greece case study: forest complex of W. Nestos", Proc. SPIE 9229, Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014), 92291G (12 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2069664

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