The forest fire prevention and extinction plan that takes place in Valencia, has a extensive variety of actions grouped within the preventive facetwhich usually relates only to jungle works.
These actions actually include not only the direct ones, made by the employees of the device and the forest companies on the ground, but also different lines of work aimed at the sensitization of society Faced with the problem of forest fires.
To get one necessary social participation, there are mechanisms for such participation to be possible and effective. To that end, a series of specific instruments have been implemented from the government. Among them, the moisture information of the mountains is provided through its publication in the Integrated forest fire management system.
Monitor the moisture of the mountains
The Generalitat reinforces the fire prevention strategy with a project that monitors the moisture of the mountains of the Valencian Community. In these terms, the Minister of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, Vicente Martínez Mus.
Martínez has presented the project of Modelization and cartographer of living fuel moisture“A tool that increases knowledge about aspects such as the declaration or the origin of a fire or how it can spread, through a monitored map by means of satellite images.”
Thus, The study is born with a triple objectivesince “the early alert in prevention is reinforced, the risk of fire is determined to be able to anticipate”, and, in addition, “we know how the fire would behave during an active emergency,” explained the Minister.
During his speech, Martínez Mus has highlighted the Generalitat’s commitment to “continue advancing to contribute knowledge and for put at the reach of professionals all the tools and technologies in the fight against fire”.
Automatize monitoring for fire prevention
After several years of work, with this project it has been possible to determine in an automated way the moisture content present in the vegetation of the Mediterranean mountains. In fact, The more water the vegetation has, the more difficult it is that this burns.
To do this, mathematical models have been created that take into account data from satellite images, Meteorological data provided by the AEMET and data taking data in field vegetation, which serve for the validation and calibration of the model itself.
“With all these ingredients, a daily moisture content map, which is published in the Integrated Forest Fire Management System“, Said the head of the Environment, who stressed that” today we start accessing the first results of this new tool, but continues to validate and calibrate the result continuously. “
Therefore, with the Viewer’s implementation It is intended to share the result of this initiative with the different agencies in charge of forest fire management in its broader concept.
This project has had the collaboration of the University University of València (UPV) through the geo -environmental cartography group and subsequent television, and have been After the work thanks to the Generalitat and Red Electricity agreementwhich for this project has contributed an economic collaboration of 80,000 euros.