Forest Fires: Operational Response and Restoration (Incendies de forêts : Lutte opérationnelle et restauration)

res, will be developed and worked on in tutorials. The means of the French civil security will be presented and work on a training simulator, on images and data of past fires will allow analyzing the success factors in the fight.

Site visits, in particular to the civil security air base in Nîmes, schools and operational coordination and decision-making centers, will illustrate the theoretical lessons. The teaching of ecosystem restoration and development techniques will include fuel management.,This course, taught primarily by civil protection authorities, will take place in southeastern France (first week, the Aix-en-Provence...?Nîmes region) and then in southwestern France (second week, the Bordeaux region),Prerequisites : Forest Fires: Detection, Mapping, Fire Behavior, and Modeling & Forest Fires : Risks and Management,Speakers : C HELY (EPHE), French Civil Protection members, F GIROUD (CEREN), R SAVAZZI (ONF)