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Steps towards the development of a Peat Fire Danger Rating System in Indonesia
IOP Conference Series. Earth and Environmental Science, Vol.874(1), pp.1-10
International Conference of Indonesia Forestry Researchers (INAFOR), 2021 (Jakarta, Indonesia, 07-Sep-2021–08-Sep-2021)
Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd
2021
Abstract
Fire danger rating systems (FDRS) are a critical tool, used around the world to help predict and prevent wildfires. Forest and land fires are a severe problem in Indonesia, with smoke and haze production exacerbated by the country's extensive tropical peatlands, many of which are drained and burn almost annually. The Indonesian FDRS was established in 1999 under the Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency, in partnership with other government agencies, and is largely based on atmospheric data. Indonesia's FDRS differentiates land types, including peatlands, but only predicts surface fire risk, rather than the risk of peatland surface fires becoming below-ground peat fire – which emit greater amounts of haze-producing smoke. This study proposes how Indonesia's FDRS might be further developed to include below-ground peat fire risk. This was achieved based on consultation with government agencies which manage and provide data to Indonesia's FDRS, and the establishment of a Peat FDRS Stakeholder Engagement Network. We describe which biophysical, social-economic or atmospheric input variables are needed in such a model to quantify the peat fire risk. We present what field data is currently available (e.g. weather) and which factors require additional data collection, including some aspects of land and social data, and, notably, bio-physical ground data on fuel loads and fuel moisture content. Data is presented by type, historical availability, scale and reliability, presented in a visually clear colour-coded table. This information can support the development of a specific peat fire risk section within Indonesia's current FDRS.
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- Title
- Steps towards the development of a Peat Fire Danger Rating System in Indonesia
- Authors
- L L B Graham (Author) - Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of Sunshine Coast , AustraliaA Arifanti (Author) - Ministry of Environment and Forestry of The Republic of IndonesiaI Malik (Author) - Ministry of Environment and Forestry of The Republic of IndonesiaM A Pribadi (Author) - Ministry of Environment and Forestry of The Republic of IndonesiaG B Applegate (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Forest Industries Research Centre
- Publication details
- IOP Conference Series. Earth and Environmental Science, Vol.874(1), pp.1-10; 10
- Conference details
- International Conference of Indonesia Forestry Researchers (INAFOR), 2021 (Jakarta, Indonesia, 07-Sep-2021–08-Sep-2021)
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.1088/1755-1315/874/1/012010
- ISSN
- 1755-1315; 1755-1307
- Copyright note
- Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99585807002621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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