Kucuk Omer, Topaloglu Ozer, Altunel Arif Oguz, Cetin Mehmet
Faculty of Forestry, Kastamonu University, 37100, Kastamonu, Turkey.
Regional Forest Directorate of Kastamonu, Kastamonu, Turkey.
Environ Monit Assess. 2017 Jul;189(7):329. doi: 10.1007/s10661-017-6008-1. Epub 2017 Jun 10.
For a successful fire suppression, it is essential to detect and intervene forest fires as early as possible. Fire lookout towers are crucial assets in detecting forest fires, in addition to other technological advancements. In this study, we performed a visibility analysis on a network of fire lookout towers currently operating in a relatively fire-prone region in Turkey's Western Black Sea region. Some of these towers had not been functioning properly; it was proposed that these be taken out of the grid and replaced with new ones. The percentage of visible areas under the current network of fire lookout towers was 73%; it could rise to 81% with the addition of newly proposed towers. This study was the first research to conduct a visibility analysis of current and newly proposed fire lookout towers in the Western Black Sea region and focus on its forest fire problem.
为了成功扑灭火灾，尽早发现并干预森林火灾至关重要。除了其他技术进步外，火情瞭望塔是探测森林火灾的关键资产。在本研究中，我们对土耳其黑海西部地区一个火灾多发地区目前运行的火情瞭望塔网络进行了能见度分析。其中一些瞭望塔运行不正常；建议将这些瞭望塔从网格中移除，并用新的替换。当前火情瞭望塔网络下的可见区域百分比为73%；增加新提议的瞭望塔后，这一比例可能升至81%。本研究是首次对黑海西部地区现有和新提议的火情瞭望塔进行能见度分析，并关注该地区森林火灾问题的研究。
