Measuring bushfire fuels is important to many different people for so many different reasons;
Calculating the likely success of first attack; prioritising fuel reduction treatments; figuring out optimum fire frequency; calculating fuel accumulation rates; assessing risks and hazards; measuring carbon release; estimating smoke production (to name a few).
This project poses questions to those interested in fire fuels: Why collect fuels data? What do we seek to learn from fuels data? Should we collect fuels data across Australia in a uniform way? How would we store the information? What are the gaps in the knowledge about fuels? and more...
