The fire calculator is a library to calculate some fire weather indices from meteorological parameters. It can be used as a jar library (from the Java Virtual Machine), a command line application or a gui application (graphical user interface). It is coded in the Scala language, which is targetting the Java virtual machine (jvm).
This tool reads meteorological data from a *.csv file and calculates the fire weather indices according to the inputs, storing the results in another *.csv file and the details of the calculation in a log file (text or json format). For each index multiple possible input parameters have been specified, according to a ranking from the optimal to the less suitable choice. For example for the canadian FWI if the parameters at noon are not available, the program will try to compute it with other meaningful daily values. Variable choice is indicated in the logs.
Has been written in scala 2.13. Requires a java virtual machine (JRE) version >= 1.8.0.
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For the command line version you can use direclty the jar library: open a terminal window and move to the folder containing the jar files (launch/firecalculator.jar).
In both Windows or Linux you can type e.g.:
java -Xmx512m -Xss10m -jar firecalculator.jar --Altitude 300 --fileparam --addparam -s 20000201 -e 20040101 ./DATA_sample.csvYou can also specify multiple input files as trailing arguments.
Note that if you do not specify arguments, the gui version will open.
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See changelog.txt
This is provided as a freeware under the Gnu Public License GPL v.2. It has been developed by WSL in the frame of the ALPFFIRS project by WSL. It is currently maintained and improved by WSL. WSL does not take any responsibilty from the ussage of the software and of the correctness of the results.
Gianni Boris Pezzatti, Swiss federal research institute of forest, snow and lanscape research WSL
boris.pezzatti at wsl.ch
Copyright © 2016 Swiss federal research institute of forest, snow and lanscape research WSL.
Following open source libraries have been used:
- csvjdbc.jar GNU Lesser General Public License (v. 2.0)
- scallop.jar MIT License.
The library jar can be compacted using ProGuard, Copyright © 2002-2016 Eric Lafortune, but json logging is then not working.
If you use the fire-calculator software and publish the results based on this software, please cite this software with:
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 2016, Fire-calculator v1.22, https://github.com/Insubric/fire-calculator.