Efficiency Improvement of Lattice Map Generation for Simulating the Spread of Fire by Electronic Housing Map
Min Xie, H. Noguchi · Advances in Computer Science and Engineering · 2010
Forecasting the spread of fire in the aftermath of an earthquake by simulation is useful for prompt fire fighting and selection of resident evacuation routes. A simulation system has been developed using Cellular Automata (CA). The map data of the simulated region is necessary to forecast a fire by CA. This research introduces an electronic housing map into the fire simulation system for improving the lattice‐map‐generation process. In the system designed in this study, a lattice map can be prepared by reading the color information of the buildings as soon as a region is specified. This process has greatly shortened the time to create the lattice map and simulates accurate shapes of the buildings. Moreover, a method is proposed to arrange cells suitable for the urban districts of the Gobo‐Hidaka area, in which a fire is simulated.