The Erosfire Project

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

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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.