REAL TIME FOREST FIRE SIMULATION WITH EXTINGUISHMENT SUPPORT

Anis Korchi, Aitor Moreno, Álvaro Segura

2010

Abstract

Fires and other related disasters provoke great destruction of high valuable environments and economical losses. In this work, we present a forest fire spreading algorithm to be used in real time and interactive Virtual Simulations. The main objective is to obtain a fast, interactive and quasi-realistic Virtual Simulation to be used in the simulation of virtual scenarios where fire-fighters and controllers will be trained. The algorithm supports the main variables involved in the fire spreading (slope and wind) and the radiation effect makes the forest fires bypass rivers or firewalls. To complete the simulation, a basic model has been added to extinguish the fire using water.

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in Harvard Style

Korchi A., Moreno A. and Segura Á. (2010). REAL TIME FOREST FIRE SIMULATION WITH EXTINGUISHMENT SUPPORT . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-026-9, pages 323-326. DOI: 10.5220/0002890703230326


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp10,
author={Anis Korchi and Aitor Moreno and Álvaro Segura},
title={REAL TIME FOREST FIRE SIMULATION WITH EXTINGUISHMENT SUPPORT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={323-326},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002890703230326},
isbn={978-989-674-026-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)
TI - REAL TIME FOREST FIRE SIMULATION WITH EXTINGUISHMENT SUPPORT
SN - 978-989-674-026-9
AU - Korchi A.
AU - Moreno A.
AU - Segura Á.
PY - 2010
SP - 323
EP - 326
DO - 10.5220/0002890703230326