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Cell2Fire W: The extended version includes the Kitral and Scott&Burgan fire behaviour models.

This simulator is based on the original Cell2Fire (Cristobal Pais, Jaime Carrasco, David Martell, David L. Woodruff, Andres Weintraub, 2021), adding the fire behaviour systems of Scott & Burgan and the Chilean Kitral model. A big-scale, grid, forest fire simulator; parallel and fast (c++) nevertheless with a friendly graphical user interface for QGIS. This fire spread simulator, supports 3 fire models: 1) Kitral, formerly: C2F+K. 2) Scott&Burgan, formerly C2F+S&B. 3) Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System, OG Cell2Fire. As Cell2Fire: i) the landscape is characterized as a grid, in which every cell has the same size, and the necessary information to simulate fire spread, i.e. fuel type, elevation and ignition probability, among others; ii) exploits parallel computation methods which allows users to run large-scale simulations in short periods of time; iii) the fires spread within each cell is assumed to be elliptical; and iv) it includes powerful statistical, graphical output, and spatial analysis features to facilitate the display and analysis of projected fire growth.

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Team members who participated in this publication:

Jaime Carrasco
Alejandro Miranda
Andrés Weintraub
Miguel Castillo
Horacio Gilabert
Rodrigo Mahaluf
David Palacios