Proceedings for the 6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference April 29 – May 3, 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Published by the International Association of Wildland Fire, Missoula, Montana, USA 1 The use of Wildfire Analyst in the Kresna Fire 2017 (Bulgaria) Nina Dobrinkova* Institute of Information and Communication Technology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected]Adrián Cardil Tecnosylva. Parque Tecnológico de León. 24009 León, Spain, [email protected]Peter Boyvalenkov Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected]Hristo Kostadinov Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected]Introduction to wildfire history on Bulgarian territory Wildfire are natural hazard affecting EU countries located in southern Europe mostly. Statistics about these fires over the past 35 years had been published in specialized reports from Joint Research Centers (JRC), as part of the EC Directorates. The JRC Centers aim to monitor the state of forests (http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/effis/reports/annual-fire-reports/) and other natural and material resources important to the development of the EU economy done per country. This system collects and summarizes data on forest fires from all EU countries and provides processed information from satellite observations and reports from the Agriculture and Forestry Ministries of the affected areas giving the number of fires and burned areas that have occurred. It is supposed that climate change is one of the main causes of the increasing wildfire occurrence all over Europe. Bulgaria is included in the EFFIS monitoring system after joining the EU in January 2007 and it clearly gives structured statistics for fire increase in many places where fire was not that common before. Prior 2007 the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, Forests conducted its own research for the territory of Bulgaria and the increasing number of forest fires since 1995 (www.nspbzn.mvr.bg/Sprav_informacia/Statistika/gorski.htm and http://www.bluelink.net/bg/bulletins/ecopolis12/1_os_1.htm). The existing statistics in Bulgaria, which are available in the official annual reports, are with dates 1971 (see fig. 1). The information in this reporting period summarize that Bulgaria is having increasing number of affected territories with wildland fires after the year 1990. Until 2005 the ministry was providing its reports following the number of burning fires within a season. However after that year, the ministry started to present the burned areas for each single fire and this official statistics is given in fig. 2.
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Proceedings for the 6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
April 29 – May 3, 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
Published by the International Association of Wildland Fire, Missoula, Montana, USA
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The use of Wildfire Analyst in the Kresna Fire 2017 (Bulgaria)
Nina Dobrinkova*
Institute of Information and Communication Technology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,