Watershed road network analysis with an emphasis on fire fighting management

    Mohsen Mostafa Info
    Shaban Shataee Jouibary Info
    Majid Lotfalian Info
    Amir Sadoddin Info
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/16486897.2017.1281816

Abstract

The aim of this study is fire hazard zoning the Chehel-Chay watershed and analysis of road network in order to fire-fighting management. Using effective factors on fire occurrence, the fire hazard map of the study area produced by support vector machine algorithm and then was divided into four hazard classes. The road length and type were investigated in the each fire hazard classes. The results showed that most of occurred fires are located in the close distances of roads and forest areas. The results showed that road types and land cover are important in fire occurrences and suppression. In high dangerous zone, the roads pass through forestlands, but in low dangerous zone, the roads are passing from farmlands. The roads do not cover the half of area and do not pass at two third of high hazard class zones. Therefore, appreciate road network planning is necessary according to fire-fighting management. 

 

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Forest road, fire hazard map, fire-fighting vehicles, Support Vector Machine (SVM)

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Mostafa, M., Jouibary, S. S., Lotfalian, M., & Sadoddin, A. (2017). Watershed road network analysis with an emphasis on fire fighting management. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 25(4), 342-353. https://doi.org/10.3846/16486897.2017.1281816

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Mostafa, M., Jouibary, S. S., Lotfalian, M., & Sadoddin, A. (2017). Watershed road network analysis with an emphasis on fire fighting management. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 25(4), 342-353. https://doi.org/10.3846/16486897.2017.1281816

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