Wildland Urban Interface Protection System against Wildfires WUI PROTECT

David Caballero Valero

Forestry Engineer, since 1989.
Head of Forest Fire Department in MeteoGRID since 2007.
In-house engineer en Meteologica S.A.
Head of Forest Ecosystems Department in Tecnoma S.A.
Technical and scientific co-coordinator of R+TD projects in IBERINSA (ACCIONA)
Technical advisor on forest fire planning and management assessment in Counsel of Environment of the Autonomic Government of Madrid
Researcher in Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Specialized in the study of forest fires, the phenomenon and the natural and social risk, and how to prevent and suppress them. Early in the eighties developed a first decision support system based on computer models, particularly fire spread, called CARDIN. By then he was researcher in the University.

Since then, and for 15 years, participated in several research projects about forest fires and information systems, such as WARM, AUTOHAZARD and EUFIRELAB.
All co-funded by the European Commission within the R+TD Framework Programms.
SCIER Project. Sensor & Computing Infrastructure for Environmental Risks (IST-5-035164). From 2006 to 2008
Forest fires and wildland-urban interface in Spain: types and risk distribution.
IV International Wildfire Conference, Seville. May 2007
Wildland-urban interface fire risk management: WARM project
II International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: A Global View. US Forest Service. Universidad de Córdoba. April 2004
Effect of random wind vectors in the final shape of fire spread simulation
V International Conference of Forest Fire Research. November 2006