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Review
. 2024 Apr 10:12:102709.
doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2024.102709. eCollection 2024 Jun.

People&Fire webGIS tool for wildfire risk assessment

Nelson Mileu  1 , José Luís Zêzere  1 , Rafaello Bergonse  1
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Review

People&Fire webGIS tool for wildfire risk assessment

Nelson Mileu et al. MethodsX. .

Abstract

People&Fire webGIS tool is an application for wildfire risk assessment, focused on obtaining simulating hazard and risk scenarios centred on land use transformation. This tool is a decision-support platform created in the context of a research project, which was dedicated to testing a new analytical framework for supporting the development and evaluation of new, integrated, and people-centred policy approaches to wildfires. The simulator used in the tool is based on the wildfire risk model that results from the combination of three components: hazard (H), exposure (E), and social vulnerability (SV). Based on the wildfire risk model and using real data, from a study region particularly susceptible to forest wildfires the as-is and to-be scenarios demonstrate People&Fire webGIS capacity. People&Fire webGIS tool is available for download at https://github.com/nmileu/peopleandfire.

Keywords: Decision support; Risk scenarios; Webgis; Wildfire hazard; Wildfire risk assessment.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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webGIS tool architecture.
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Workflow of the hazard and risk calculation components, illustrating the inputs information for the generation of to-be scenario.
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Workflow of the hazard a) and risk b) calculation component.
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Case study location.
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Screen capture of the webGIS tool main map and risk simulator tab.
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Screen capture of the social vulnerability (a), exposure (b), hazard (c) and risk (d) As-Is scenario maps.
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Screen capture of Pomares parish To-Be risk scenario.
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Screen capture of Serpins parish To-Be risk scenario.
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Screen capture of Espinhal parish To-Be risk scenario.
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Screen capture of Castelo parish To-Be risk scenario.
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