The Fire Ontology
type: Ontology
creator: http://lattes.cnpq.es/3259677468745429
created: 2013-10-31
modified: 2013-12-03
preferred namespace prefix: Fire
version info: 0.8
comment: Fire Ontology aims to represent some concepts of fire ecology in the Cerrado, a Brazilian savanna.
description: 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.

has component
type: ObjectProperty
inverse of: isPartOf
domain: Fire risk
range: environmental condition

environmental condition
type: Class
subclass of: Natural cause
creation date: 2013-04-07T14:35:18Z
has OBO namespace: ENVO
id: ENVO:01000203
comment: 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.
created by: pbuttigi
comment: An abiotic environmental factor that influences the functioning of living organisms (Begon et al., 2006).

has cause
type: ObjectProperty
range: Cause
domain: Fire

has characteristic
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Fire
range: Fire characteristic
inverse of: is characteristic of

has duration
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Fire
range: Temporal Entity

has effect
type: ObjectProperty
range: Effect
domain: Fire

has frequency
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Fire
range: Fire frequency

has ignition
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Fire
range: Ignition probability factor

has location
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Fire
range: Spatial Entity

has risk
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Fire
range: Fire risk
inverse of: is risk of

has severity
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Fire
range: Burn Severity

ignites
type: ObjectProperty
range: Fire
domain: Ignition probability factor
inverse of: has ignition

is caused by
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Cause
range: Fire
inverse of: has cause

is characteristic of
type: ObjectProperty
range: Fire
domain: Fire characteristic

is duration of
type: ObjectProperty
range: Fire
inverse of: has duration
domain: Temporal Entity

is effect of
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Effect
range: Fire
inverse of: has effect

is location of
type: ObjectProperty
range: Fire
inverse of: has location
domain: Spatial Entity

is risk of
type: ObjectProperty
range: Fire
domain: Fire risk

is part of
type: ObjectProperty
inverse of: has component
range: Fire risk
domain: environmental condition

death rate
type: Class
label: mortality
label: mortality rate
equivalent class: Plant Mortality
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: It's the number of individuals dead over time.

Precipitation
type: Class
label: Rainfall
label: average annual precipitation
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: Any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that falls under gravity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation)
comment: Qualquer produto da condensação do vapor de água atmosférico que cai sob efeito da gravidade. @pt

Anthropogenic cause
type: Class
subclass of: Cause
comment: Causa antrópica
comment: Fire set by human action
comment: Ações humanas que provocam queimadas @pt

Area burned
type: Class
subclass of: Fire characteristic
comment: It's the total area affected by fire in a burn event.

Brush fire
type: Class
subclass of: Fire
disjoint with: Forest fire
disjoint with: Scrub fire
comment: A fire in low-growing and brush

Cause
type: Class
comment: It represents the set of causes that together or separately can lead to an event of fire

Consecutive rainless days
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: Number of consecutive days without precipitation

Cool-season fire
type: Class
subclass of: Harzard-reduction fire
comment: 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.

Duration
type: Class
subclass of: Temporal Entity

Ecosystem effect
type: Class
subclass of: Effect
comment: The changes on the ecosystem structure and/or functioning after an event of fire.

Effect
type: Class
comment: It represents the consequences of the fire in ecosystems and individual organims.

Effect on plant
type: Class
subclass of: Effect
comment: The changes on plant communities or on plant individuals after an event of fire.

Ending point
type: Class
subclass of: Spatial Entity

Ending time
type: Class
subclass of: Temporal Entity

Establishment
type: Class
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: The process by which a plant becomes established in a new habitat.

Extension
type: Class
subclass of: Spatial Entity

Fire
type: Class
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b1
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b2
comment: It's the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.

Fire characteristic
type: Class
comment: Stands for those parameters used to describe the characteristics or behavior of a fire event.

Fire frequency
type: Class
subclass of: Fire characteristic
comment: The average time interval between successive fires or the number of fires within a specific period of time.

Fire history
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: Tells the occurrence of previous fire events and the patterns of its behavior.

Fire Intensity
type: Class
subclass of: Fire characteristic
comment: Energy output from fire.

Fire risk
type: Class
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b3
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b4
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b5
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b6
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b7
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b8

Burn Severity
type: Class
label: Fire Severity
subclass of: Fire characteristic
comment: Aboveground and belowground organic matter consumption from fire.

Speed
type: Class
subclass of: Fire characteristic
comment: it's the average speed of the fire front.

Spread
type: Class
subclass of: Fire characteristic
comment: It's how the fire event is spreading, the directions.

Flame height
type: Class
subclass of: Fire characteristic
comment: Its the maximum height a flame achieve in a fire event.

Flowering
type: Class
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: It is the production of flowers, i.e., when a sexual mature plant starts to produce flowers.

Forest fire
type: Class
subclass of: Fire
comment: A fire that occurs in a wooded area.

Fruit and Seed Production
type: Class
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: It is the amount of fruit or seeds produced. In this usage, it reflects how the fire affects the production of fruits and seed.

Fuel
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: The amount of fuel available for fire to burn.

Germination
type: Class
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: 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

Harzard-reduction fire
type: Class
subclass of: Controlled fire
comment: It's a fire set in order to prevent large and severe events of burning.

High-intensity fire
type: Class
subclass of: Harzard-reduction fire
comment: The high-intensity fires are set in order to clear a certain area, that is, to remove all fuel material.

Ignition probability factor
type: Class
subclass of: fire resource:arc62e9b9
comment: Represents the factors that together affect the likelihood of a certain are to burn or to start a fire event.

Maximum temperature
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: 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).

Minimum relative humidity
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: The minimum relative amount of whater vapour in the atmosphere
comment: Quantidade relativa mínima de vapor de água na atmosfera @pt

Natural cause
type: Class
subclass of: Cause
comment: Natural agents that cause fire on vegetation
comment: Fatores naturais que provocam queimadas @pt

Observed risk
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: It is based on data observed on meteorological stations and combined with occurrence of burning outbreaks detected by INPES's satelite monitoring system.

Plant Mortality
type: Class
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: The death of plants caused by fire.

Plant resprout
type: Class
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: 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.

Controlled fire
type: Class
label: Prescription fire
subclass of: Fire
disjoint with: Out of control fire
comment: A fire set under controlled and planned situation.

Scrub fire
type: Class
subclass of: Fire
comment: A fire in scrubby trees.

Starting point
type: Class
subclass of: Spatial Entity

Starting time
type: Class
subclass of: Temporal Entity

Top kill
type: Class
subclass of: Effect on plant
comment: It's the death of only the above ground biomass of a plant.

Topography
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: Certain topography features are more likely to burn than others.
comment: The study of surface shape and features of the Earth. The topography of an area can also mean the surface shape and features themselves.

Out of control fire
type: Class
label: Uncontrolled fire
subclass of: Fire
comment: Fires that were not planned, but were started by arson, accident or lightning and burn out-of-control.

Vegetation type
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: It is the type of vegetation to be considered in the calculation of fire risk.

Weather
type: Class
subclass of: environmental condition
comment: 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

Wildfire
type: Class
subclass of: Out of control fire
comment: A fire burning in wildland fuel.

Spatial Entity
type: Class
comment: It's the entity used to describe the spatial reations between entities or other elements.

Temporal Entity
type: Class
comment: It's the entity used to describe the temporal relationships between entities or other elements.

Biennial
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire frequency
comment: Fire happening once in two years interval

Critical
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire risk
type: Burn Severity
label: Crítico @pt
comment: The worse condition of fire risk. The probability of burn outbreaks are very high.

Fire protected
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire frequency
comment: No occurrences of fire, or only accidental uncontrolled fire

High
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire risk
type: Burn Severity
label: Alto @pt
comment: It is a condition with high probability of burn outbreaks

Low
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire risk
type: Burn Severity
label: Baixo @pt
comment: It represents a low risk of burn outbreaks

Low frequency
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire frequency
comment: I represents a rate of burn about once every 10 years

Medium
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire risk
type: Burn Severity
label: Médio @pt
comment: It represents a medium risk of burn outbreaks.

Minimum
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire risk
type: Burn Severity
label: Mínimo @pt
comment: The conditions with the minimal probability of a burn outbreaks.

Quadrennial
type: NamedIndividual
type: Fire frequency
label: Quadrianual @pt
comment: It represents the frequency of about one fire event every four years.

Pluviosity
label: Rainfall