Moulay Akhloufi
Université de Moncton
WRFI Lidar
image credit: Matthew Corbett / OMNR
Wildfire activity is increasing in Canada due to climate change, posing a significant threat to ecosystems, communities and infrastructure.
Proactive wildfire risk assessment and mitigation strategies are necessary to better understand and respond to these changes.
Central to fire mitigation strategies are the characterization of forest fuels (combustible vegetation, litter, and wood debris) and methods to link those fuels to expected fire behaviour (e.g. fire intensity, rate of spread).
Funded through Natural Resources Canada’s Wildfire Resilient Futures Initiative (WRFI), our research project aims to address the need to quantify fuel structures to improve understanding of fire behaviour in Canada’s changing forest environments.
Our research project is organized around four overarching goals.
Read more about them here.
Optimizing ground-based lidar protocols
Quantifying fuel connectivity
Upscaling from terrestrial to airborne lidar
Creating novel tools for risk assessment
Our team
See the full list of researchers working toward our goals here.
