Forest Fire Simulation
Severin Staudinger · IGI Global eBooks · 2022
In this chapter a heuristic forest fire model based on cellular automata is presented and realized for efficiency reasons with the DataFlow programming approach. Real-world images taken by satellites are analyzed and used as the basis for simulations. In the presented forest fire model, natural influences like wind strength and direction, burning behavior, as well as different levels of inflammability are considered. The DataFlow implementation on an FPGA-based Maxeler MAX3 Vectis card was compared to a sequential C version executed on an Intel Xeon E5-2650 2.0 GHz CPU. The author obtained speedups of up to 70 for a strong wind situation and 46 for a random wind setting while reducing energy consumption.