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This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources. As all required knowledge for Probability and Statistics for Fire Engineering is included in the preliminary chapters, the book is suitable for teaching Fire Engineering components in a wide range of engineering courses for senior graduates and for postgraduate students of Fire Engineering. It will also serve as a comprehensive reference for professionals. This book describes the theory and the models involved in risk analysis,

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The book presents a wide range of techniques for extracting information from satellite remote sensing images in forest fire danger assessment. It covers the main concepts involved in fire danger rating, and analyses the inputs derived from remotely sensed data for mapping fire danger at both the local and global scale. The questions addressed concern the estimation of fuel moisture content, the description of fuel structural properties, the estimation of meteorological danger indices, the analysis of human factors associated with fire ignition, and the integration of different risk factors in

Fire risk assessment. --- Forest fire forecasting. --- Remote sensing. --- Vegetation mapping. --- Wildfires --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Fire extinction --- Fire prevention --- Plant mapping --- Plants --- Cartography --- Fire hazard analysis --- Fire hazard assessment --- Fire risk analysis --- Fires --- Hazard analysis, Fire --- Hazard assessment, Fire --- Risk analysis, Fire --- Risk assessment --- Forecasting, Forest fire --- Forest fires --- Wildfire forecasting --- Prevention and control. --- Mapping --- Forecasting --- Prevention and control

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Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Sea transport. Seaports --- European Union --- Ships --- Fire Prevention --- Navires --- Incendies --- Fires and fire prevention --- Incendies et prévention des incendies --- Prévention --- Fire risk assessment --- Fire prevention --- Inspection --- Incendies et prévention des incendies --- Prévention --- Vessels (Ships) --- Boats and boating --- Shipbuilding --- Fire hazard analysis --- Fire hazard assessment --- Fire risk analysis --- Fires --- Hazard analysis, Fire --- Hazard assessment, Fire --- Risk analysis, Fire --- Risk assessment --- Buildings --- Fire safety --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Prevention --- Ships - Fires and fire prevention - European Union countries --- Fire risk assessment - European Union countries --- Fire prevention - Inspection - European Union countries --- Fire prevention - European Union countries

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Through an exploration of the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), this book examines how the emergence of digital technologies, combined with a policy emphasis on risk, have fundamentally transformed the way society is secured against emergencies. Forms of anticipatory governance have developed in which interventions are made in the present but are oriented towards, and justified through, digitally rendered visions of future contingencies. At the same time, risk is understood as a ‘lived relation’: a set of pervasive knowledge found to cut across and constitute everyday life in the FRS. It is by inquiring into such practices and the new modes of power they support that the book engages with, investigates and conceptualises anew some of the key geo-political issues that characterize security and emergency governance. Appealing to scholars interested in risk, digital technologies and their involvement in matters of governance, the book outlines the forms of knowledge now deployed to make sense of and govern the future. It demonstrates the affective and material forces enrolled in emergency governance and elaborates on the range of temporal entanglements that underpin actions taken to govern emergencies yet to unfold. Ultimately the book explores the genealogies inscribed into risk's present mobilisation and asks the reader to consider how we are made subject to forms of governance oriented towards the future?

Social sciences. --- Great Britain --- Religion and culture. --- Sociology. --- Industrial sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Knowledge - Discourse. --- Sociology of Work. --- British Politics. --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Politics and government. --- Social aspects --- Fire risk assessment --- Assistance in emergencies --- Emergency assistance --- Failure to assist in emergencies --- Emergencies --- Bystander effect --- Fire hazard analysis --- Fire hazard assessment --- Fire risk analysis --- Fires --- Hazard analysis, Fire --- Hazard assessment, Fire --- Risk analysis, Fire --- Risk assessment --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Great Britain-Politics and gover. --- Culture. --- Great Britain—Politics and government. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Popular culture

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Scientists and managers alike need timely, cost-effective, and technically appropriate fire-related information to develop functional strategies for the diverse fire communities. "Remote Sensing Modeling and Applications to Wildland Fires" addresses wildland fire management needs by presenting discussions that link ecology and the physical sciences from local to regional levels, views on integrated decision support data for policy and decision makers, new technologies and techniques, and future challenges and how remote sensing might help to address them. While creating awareness of wildland fire management and rehabilitation issues, hands-on experience in applying remote sensing and simulation modeling is also shared. This book will be a useful reference work for researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the fields of fire science, remote sensing and modeling applications. Professor John J. Qu works at the Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science at George Mason University (GMU), USA.  He is the Founder and Director of the Environmental Science and Technology Center (ESTC) and EastFIRE Lab at GMU.

Fire management. --- Wildfire forecasting. --- Wildfires -- Remote sensing. --- Wildfires --- Fire management --- Wildfire forecasting --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Remote sensing --- Forest fires --- Fire prevention. --- Remote sensing. --- Fire risk assessment. --- Prevention and control. --- Fire hazard analysis --- Fire hazard assessment --- Fire risk analysis --- Fires --- Hazard analysis, Fire --- Hazard assessment, Fire --- Risk analysis, Fire --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Buildings --- Fire safety --- Prevention of fires --- Bush fires --- Bushfires --- Wild fires --- Wildland fires --- Risk assessment --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention --- Earth sciences. --- Natural disasters. --- Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Fire extinction --- Fire prevention --- Natural disasters --- Deforestation --- Fire weather --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Geology. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Natural calamities --- Disasters