An Interactive Tool for Simulating the Movement of Fire Through Landscapes Avian Systems, developer of imaging software, announces the release of Version 1.0 of Fire Tower Software. Fire Tower allows users to simulate the spread of fires through the landscape from digital earth images including, aerial photographs or satellite imagery, on color-enabled Macintosh and Power Macintosh computers.
Fire tower is a multi-step process.
In step one, users specify which land cover types are flammable and which ones are not. In step two, users set one or more fires of any size or shape anywhere in the landscape. In step three, users specify the rate of growth of the fire or they can set Fire Tower so that fires burn instantly to their limit. Step four, entails running the simulation and saving the resulting images and acreage reports. Fire Tower lets users update or change which land cover types are burnable while a fire is burning.