Bibliography

Key references describing PROPAGATOR’s scientific background, operational use, and applications to prescribed fire planning.

Core Simulator

• A. Trucchia, M. D’Andrea, F. Baghino, P. Fiorucci, L. Ferraris, D. Negro, A. Gollini, and M. Severino. “Propagator: An operational cellular-automata based wildfire simulator.” Fire 3(3):26, 2020. doi:10.3390/fire3030026

Fire Spotting

• A. Alexandridis, D. Vakalis, C. I. Siettos, and G. V. Bafas. “A cellular automata model for forest fire spread prediction: The case of the wildfire that swept through Spetses Island in 1990.” Applied Mathematics and Computation 204(1):191–201, 2008. doi:10.1016/j.amc.2008.06.046

Operational Deployments

• A. Trucchia, M. D’Andrea, F. Baghino, N. Perello, N. Rebora, and P. Fiorucci. “Experiences and lessons learnt in wildfire management with PROPAGATOR, an operational cellular-automata-based wildfire simulator.” In D. Sempere-Torres, A. Karakostas, C. Rossi, and P. Quevauviller (eds.), Responding to Extreme Weather Events, chapter 3. Wiley, 2024. doi:10.1002/9781119741374.ch3

Prescribed Fire Planning

• N. Perello, A. Trucchia, F. Baghino, B. S. Asif, L. Palmieri, N. Rebora, and P. Fiorucci. “Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy.” Fire Ecology 20(7), 2024. doi:10.1186/s42408-023-00239-7