TinderBox
TinderBox is a collection of applications which apply the FBP model to simulate fire spread. It supports a number of growth models to simulate individual fires, but can also run numerous fires to calculate burn probablility.
All of the core TinderBox code and its libraries are written in C. Various custom utilites (written in C, Perl, and Bash) for working with rasterized landscape files are included. See our applications page for more details.
Ideas and Goals
- See the features page for an overview of the features already implemented.
- Create a (graphical) utility to configure most aspects of the burn and growth model parameters
- Get tinderbox running on smokey (require account and some software installed)
- More user (written) and developer (doxygen) documentation
- Burn Probability model updates: using weather indices to determine ignitions/escapes
- Using autoconf to improve portability
- APIs for other language (Python?)
- Add weather indices to determine ignition and escape for burn probability
- Validate the growth model using real data and comparing with Prometheus/BurnP3
