EVALUATION OF FIRE LOOKOUT TOWERS USING GIS-BASED SPATIAL VISIBILITY AND SUITABILITY ANALYZES

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dc.authorid0000-0001-6558-9029en_US
dc.contributor.authorAkay, Abdullah Emin
dc.contributor.authorWing, Michael
dc.contributor.authorBuyuksakalli, Halit
dc.contributor.authorMalkocglu, Salih
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-20T20:12:21Z
dc.date.available2021-03-20T20:12:21Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentBTÜ, Orman Fakültesi, Orman Mühendisliği Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractEffective forest fire fighting involves alerting firefighting teams immediately in the case of a tire so that teams can promptly arrive the fire scene. The most effective way for an early detection of forest tires is monitoring of forest lands from fire lookout towers. Especially in fire sensitive forest lands, towers should be systematically located in such a way that fire lookout personnel can monitor the largest amount of forest land as possible. In this study, the visibility capabilities of lookout towers located in Koycegiz Forest Enterprise Directorate (FED)in the city of Mugla in Turkey were evaluated by using Geographical Information System (GIS) based visibility and suitability analysis. The results of visibility analysis indicated that 77.12% of forest land were visible from the current towers. To extend the proportion of visible forest lands, locations of additional lookout towers were evaluated using spatial visibility and suitability analysis in which the tower locations were examined by considering specific criteria (i.e. distance to roads, elevation, ground slope, topographic features). Suitability analysis results identified five new towers in addition to current towers in the study area. The results indicated that visible forest lands increased to 81.47% by locating new towers, and increase of almost 4.35%. In addition, over half of the forests became visible by at least two towers when including five towers suggested by suitability analysis. The GIS-based method developed in this study can assist fire managers to determine the optimal locations for fire lookout towers for effective fire management activities.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.31298/sl.144.5-6.5en_US
dc.identifier.endpage288en_US
dc.identifier.issn0373-1332
dc.identifier.issn1846-9140
dc.identifier.issue5-6en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3en_US
dc.identifier.startpage279en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://doi.org/10.31298/sl.144.5-6.5
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12885/501
dc.identifier.volume144en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000594747400006en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.institutionauthorAkay, Abdullah Emin
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCroatian Forestry Socen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSumarski Listen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectForest firesen_US
dc.subjectFire monitoringen_US
dc.subjectVisibility and Suitability analysisen_US
dc.subjectKoycegizen_US
dc.titleEVALUATION OF FIRE LOOKOUT TOWERS USING GIS-BASED SPATIAL VISIBILITY AND SUITABILITY ANALYZESen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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