Open AccessWATERSHED ROAD NETWORK ANALYSIS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FIRE FIGHTING MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
Mohsen Mostafa,
Shaban Shataee,
Majid Lotfalian,
Amir Sadoddin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of environmental engineering and landscape management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.514
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1822-4199
pISSN - 1648-6897
DOI - 10.3846/16486897.2017.1281816
Subject(s) - zoning , fire hazard , hazard , watershed , firefighting , land cover , environmental science , geography , fire protection , environmental resource management , land use , cartography , civil engineering , forestry , computer science , engineering , ecology , machine learning , biology
The aim of this study is fire hazard zoning the Chehel-Chay watershed and analysis of road network in order to fire-fighting management. Using effective factors on fire occurrence, the fire hazard map of the study area produced by support vector machine algorithm and then was divided into four hazard classes. The road length and type were investigated in the each fire hazard classes. The results showed that most of occurred fires are located in the close distances of roads and forest areas. The results showed that road types and land cover are important in fire occurrences and suppression. In high dangerous zone, the roads pass through forestlands, but in low dangerous zone, the roads are passing from farmlands. The roads do not cover the half of area and do not pass at two third of high hazard class zones. Therefore, appreciate road network planning is necessary according to fire-fighting management.