Fuel breaks design on wheat fields

摘要

The landscape mosaic of forest and wheat fields is one of the fastest fire spreading complexes (7-9 km/h during Solsona’98 wildfire). In order to help to hold the spread an easy to use card have been developed to assess the farm owners to calculate the wide of the line they need to build in their fields to help fire operations and to cut fire spread when inside the fields. This card have been developed using BEHAVE models and building new models for the 4 main types of wheat fields in Catalonia. The card has been spread around the area and training and tests developed in order to prove it.