To show an example of what post-fire debris flow can cause. This example is from the United States.

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Welcome to the website of the Erosfire project. This website gives a clear overview of the Erosfire project and all fire related studies.

The Erosfire project studies the post-fire effects on soil erosion, started with the aim to develop a software tool, integrated in a GIS-environment, that allows to assess and map, at the scale of individual hillslopes, soil erosion hazard in recently burned forest areas for different scenarios of post-fire land management, including “no-intervention” and considering diverse erosion mitigation and control measures.

This project began in 2005 with a simple methodology based on Rainfall Simulations and Open Plots focused at the slope scale, and then in 2007 the ErosfireII began to test this tool in other burned areason slope to catchment scale.

In this website you can observe some of the techniques applied in the study of soil erosion, since the beginning of the project till the latest’s advances on equipment and methods.

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Erosfire I (finished)

Study Areas

Written by Diana Vieira

Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:25

Study Areas

Source: http://scrif.igeo.pt/satelites/satelite.html

As principal study area for the project’s first year was chosen the area in the municipalities of Albergaria-a-Velha and Águeda, north-central Portugal, that was affected by a forest wildfire occuring on July 7 2005.

Within this area, most of the fieldwork will be carried out in the localities of Açores and Jafafe, pertaining to the parishes of Vale Maior and Macinhata do Vouga, respectively.

Laserscan results of the Açores1 study site

The Erosfire Project

Study Areas

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