Fire Ontology aims to represent some concepts of fire ecology in the Cerrado, a Brazilian savanna.
The Fire Ontology
The Fire Ontology was developed to represent the scientific knowledge about fire behave focused to describe the characteristics, causes and effects of fire on wood plants in the Brazilian Cerrado Domain. This ontology will be part of the GeoLinked Data Ontology network to enrich the web of data with geospatial data of the Cerrado Domain, especially with regard the wood plant dynamics.
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It's the number of individuals dead over time.
Any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that falls under gravity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation)
Qualquer produto da condensação do vapor de água atmosférico que cai sob efeito da gravidade.
Fire set by human action
Ações humanas que provocam queimadas
It's the total area affected by fire in a burn event.
A fire in low-growing and brush
It represents the set of causes that together or separately can lead to an event of fire
Consecutive rainless days
Number of consecutive days without precipitation
It's a fire set during the cool season, to avoid the fire to achieve very high temperatures or to make it easy to stop it.
The changes on the ecosystem structure and/or functioning after an event of fire.
It represents the consequences of the fire in ecosystems and individual organims.
The changes on plant communities or on plant individuals after an event of fire.
The process by which a plant becomes established in a new habitat.
It's the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
Stands for those parameters used to describe the characteristics or behavior of a fire event.
The average time interval between successive fires or the number of fires within a specific period of time.
Tells the occurrence of previous fire events and the patterns of its behavior.
Energy output from fire.
Aboveground and belowground organic matter consumption from fire.
it's the average speed of the fire front.
It's how the fire event is spreading, the directions.
Its the maximum height a flame achieve in a fire event.
Flowering
It is the production of flowers, i.e., when a sexual mature plant starts to produce flowers.
A fire that occurs in a wooded area.
It is the amount of fruit or seeds produced. In this usage, it reflects how the fire affects the production of fruits and seed.
The amount of fuel available for fire to burn.
It is the process by which plants, fungi and bacteria emerge from seeds and spores, and begin growth. The most common example of germination is the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm. Source: wikipedia.org
It's a fire set in order to prevent large and severe events of burning.
The high-intensity fires are set in order to clear a certain area, that is, to remove all fuel material.
Represents the factors that together affect the likelihood of a certain are to burn or to start a fire event.
It is a measure of the thermal energy per particle of matter or radiation; it is measured by a thermometer, which may be calibrated in any of various temperature scales, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature).
The minimum relative amount of whater vapour in the atmosphere
Quantidade relativa mínima de vapor de água na atmosfera
Natural cause
Natural agents that cause fire on vegetation
Fatores naturais que provocam queimadas
Observed risk
It is based on data observed on meteorological stations and combined with occurrence of burning outbreaks detected by INPES's satelite monitoring system.
The death of plants caused by fire.
It's when the fire event influence the plant individuals to resprout, that is, the fire can induce the growth of new branches as well the vegetative reproduction of some fire resistant species.
A fire set under controlled and planned situation.
A fire in scrubby trees.
It's the death of only the above ground biomass of a plant.
Certain topography features are more likely to burn than others.
The study of surface shape and features of the Earth. The topography of an area can also mean the surface shape and features themselves.
Fires that were not planned, but were started by arson, accident or lightning and burn out-of-control.
Vegetation type
It is the type of vegetation to be considered in the calculation of fire risk.
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Generally refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity. Source: wikipedia.org
A fire burning in wildland fuel.
It's the entity used to describe the spatial reations between entities or other elements.
Temporal Entity
It's the entity used to describe the temporal relationships between entities or other elements.
Experimental class created in EnvO. A condition defines a restricted range of a given quality or combination of qualities. If an environment class, E, has_condition C, then all qualities listed in C are restricted to the ranges defined in C in E. This is not intended as a logical conditional.
An abiotic environmental factor that influences the functioning of living organisms (Begon et al., 2006).
Fire happening once in two years interval
Critical
Crítico
The worse condition of fire risk. The probability of burn outbreaks are very high.
No occurrences of fire, or only accidental uncontrolled fire
High
Alto
It is a condition with high probability of burn outbreaks
Low
Baixo
It represents a low risk of burn outbreaks
I represents a rate of burn about once every 10 years
Medium
Médio
It represents a medium risk of burn outbreaks.
Minimum
Mínimo
The conditions with the minimal probability of a burn outbreaks.
Quadrennial
Quadrianual
It represents the frequency of about one fire event every four years.