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Cell2Fire W

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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Authors:

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