1. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20061 Achievements in Wildland Fire Metrology Acquis en Métrologie des Incendies de Forêt

2. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20062 WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements  Laboratory and Field experiments.  Wildland fires and operational work.  Sensors, data analysis and methodologies.  Real time.  Homogenization of the methods and the sensors.  Centre for technological development. 14 Partners 13 Deliverables

3. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20063 State of the art and survey WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements

4. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20064

5. 5 WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements  Laboratory Work

6. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20066 Laboratory experiments: Degradation gases analysis in laboratory experiments – Analyse en laboratoire des gaz de dégradation SPE UMR CNRS 6134 – Università di Corsica Composition – CPG-SMFlame characterization Mass loss, height of flame, temperature distribution CO, CO 2, O 2, CH 4, C 2 H 4, C 2 H 6

7. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20067 UNIT 7:CIFOR- INIA (P010)

8. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20068 UNIT 7:CIFOR-INIA (P010) Efficiency of fire retardants (long term and foam): Laboratory tests

9. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/20069 Experimental and numerical work carried out at the Forest Fire Laboratory at IST Properties of fuel beds and shrubs Determination of pressure loss per unit length for different species inside fuel beds and shrubs Determination of convective heat transfer coefficient for different species inside fuel beds and shrubs DEM IN+ DEM IN+ Small IST tunnel Heating elements section Heating elements stuffed with steel wool to provide a uniform velocity and temperature fields Blower and settling chamber Working section (lid removed)

10. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200610 Characterization of flame front propagation in fuel beds of Pinus pinaster and Pinus halepensis 1 Blower and settling chamber 2 Fuel bed 3 Mirror 3 4 Rod with thermocouples 2 4 2 4 Large IST tunnel Rate of SpreadFlame height Flame angle 1 3 Experimental and numerical work carried out at theForest Fire Laboratory at IST DEM IN+

11. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200611 DEM IN+ Experimental and numerical work carried out at the Forest Fire Laboratory at IST Determination of horizontal gap widths to prevent flame transition Flame transition across horizontal gap widths

12. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200612 DEM IN+ Experimental and numerical work carried out at the Forest Fire Laboratory at IST DEM IN+ Numerical simulation of IST’s fuel bed studies Numerical simulation using commercial software FDS – Fire Dynamics Simulator (from NIST) WFDS – Wild-Fire Dynamics Simulator (collaboration with NIST) (in progress)

13. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200613 Survey on collection and analysis of data from infrared images in laboratory experiments Analysis of the experiments in order to try to homogenise the methods and to provide experimentation guidelines Real time measurements of fire characteristics GRVC-USE WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements

14. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200614 Measurement of smoke emissions- (UAVR + ADAI) Laboratorial experiments Fuel Load (kg.m -2 ) 0,4 (F1)0,6 (F2)0,8 (F3) Retardant cover (ml.m -2 ) 000 5075100 70105140 90135180 MEASURING AND ANALYSIS Retardant covert Fuel Load Volatile Organic Componenets Retardant covert Fuel Load Particulete Matter

15. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200615 A W ALL- L ESS L ABORATORY FOR W ILDLAND F IRES S CIENCES AND T ECNHOLOGIES IN THE E URO- M EDITERRANEAN R EGION UNIT 07 – ADAI CONTRIBUTION FINAL MEETING, AVIGNON 18-21 OCTOBER 2006 Slope and Wind Table Wind Tunnel Wind Tunnel Canyon Tables

16. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200616 A W ALL- L ESS L ABORATORY FOR W ILDLAND F IRES S CIENCES AND T ECNHOLOGIES IN THE E URO- M EDITERRANEAN R EGION UNIT 07 – ADAI CONTRIBUTION FINAL MEETING, AVIGNON 18-21 OCTOBER 2006 - Some Applications Cases, HEAT FLUX SENSORS - LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS - Some Applications CASES, INFRA-RED CAMERA - LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS - Some Applications CASES, INFRA-RED CAMERA - Inflamability Tests -Pinus needles -Straw -Eucalyptus

17. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200617 WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements  Field Work

18. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200618 A W ALL- L ESS L ABORATORY FOR W ILDLAND F IRES S CIENCES AND T ECNHOLOGIES IN THE E URO- M EDITERRANEAN R EGION UNIT 07 – ADAI CONTRIBUTION FINAL MEETING, AVIGNON 18-21 OCTOBER 2006 GESTOSA EXPERIMENTAL FIELD 1998-2004

19. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200619 UNIT 07 – ADAI CONTRIBUTION FINAL MEETING, AVIGNON 18-21 OCTOBER 2006 FIELD EXPERIMENTS FIELD EXPERIMENTS - Some Applications Cases, Heat Flux Sensors and cameras-

20. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200620 UCOR.IF Team Contribution -P031 Operational Conditions

21. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200621 Collection and analysis of data from infrared and visual images in operational conditions Real time measurements of fire characteristics Field Fire Monitoring Tool GRVC-USE WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements

22. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200622 Results: Plot 760 IR Frontal View Visual Lateral View: Smoke occludes the flames Visual Frontal View :Smoke occludes the flames GRVC-USE

23. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200623 Smoke Plume Segmentation Design, development and testing of techniques for smoke plume measurements using video images. Analysis of video and data recorded during the experiments. GRVC-USE

24. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200624 Field experiments Physical measurements: heat fluxes, temperature, image processing (visual and infrared), wind fied… SPE UMR CNRS 6134 – Università di Corsica

25. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200625 The measurement protocol Fire experiment on Genista Cinerea bush. Notice vertical wind on the right arrow, the 3D anemometer (moving for « security reasons » !), the width of flames (10 meters between the markers). P027 : Team « Gestion et Valorisation de l’Environnement ». UMR « ESPACE ». P. CARREGA, D. FOX Realization of experimental burnings in the field near Nice (South-East of France), measuring fire Rate Of Spread, and meteorological conditions, and especially effects of fire on wind speed and direction.

26. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200626 Moment when fire front is going the nearest from the anemometer B Anemometer A is non influenced by fire, anemometer B is influenced. Change of direction Change of speed PARTNER P027 : Team « Gestion et Valorisation de l’Environnement ». UMR « ESPACE ». P. CARREGA, D. FOX Vertical Wind Horizontal Wind

27. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200627 Conceptual model of fire effect on wind P027 : Team « Gestion et Valorisation de l’Environnement ». UMR « ESPACE ». P. CARREGA, D. FOX

28. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200628 Results based on 8h of exposition (hourly concentrations) Personal passive samplers results Firemen location (black arrow indicates wind direction) Measurement of smoke concentrations - Gestosa experiments (UAVR + ADAI)

29. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200629 Continuum measurements results Measurement of smoke concentrations - Gestosa experiments (UAVR + ADAI)

30. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200630 WP07: Fire metrology unit (UC3M contribution) Succesful discrimination of flames/embers/firefront at different distances In collaboration with INIA-CIFOR: Distance 7 m In collaboration with CIF-Lourizan: Distance 180 m IR band MFI

31. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200631 WP07: Fire metrology unit (UC3M contribution) 250024002300220021002000 0.0 4.0x10 -3 8.0x10 -3 1.2x10 -2 1.6x10 -2 2.0x10 -2 2.4x10 -2 2.8x10 -2 ulex europaeus CO 2 Spectral absorbance Wavenumber (cm ) CO 2 250024002300220021002000 0.0 4.0x10 -3 8.0x10 -3 1.2x10 -2 1.6x10 -2 2.0x10 -2 2.4x10 -2 2.8x10 -2 ulex europaeus CO 2 Spectral absorbance Wavenumber (cm ) CO 2 31003050300029502900285028002750 0.000 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.010 0.012 erica umbellata spectral absorbance wavenumber (cm ) CH 4 31003050300029502900285028002750 0.000 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.010 0.012 erica umbellata spectral absorbance wavenumber (cm ) CH 4 CH 3 OH Measurement of pyrolysis gases with Fourier Transform IR spectrometer

32. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200632 WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements  Laboratory and Field experiments.  Wildland fires and operational work.  Sensors, data analysis and methodologies.  Real time.  Homogenization of the methods and the sensors.  Centre for technological development. A W all-less Laboratory for Wildland Fire Sciences and Technologies in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

33. EUFIRELAB, Symposium conclusif, Conclusive symposium, Avignon, 20/10/200633 Deliverables WP07: Fire metrology unit achievements