Publicações
2025
Almeida, M. (Ed). (2025). Scientific perspectives on wildfire risk management at the property scale of WUI. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2687-1
Cardoso, E.; Viegas, D.X.; Lopes, A.G. (2025). A Systematic Review of Models for Fire Spread in Wildfires by Spotting. Fire 2025, 8, 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8100392
Chehreh, B.; Moutinho, A.; Viegas, C. (2025). Seeing the Trees from Above: A Survey on Real and Synthetic Agroforestry Datasets for Remote Sensing Applications. Remote Sens. 2025, 17, 3346. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17193346
Gameiro, T.; Pereira, T.; Moghadaspoura, H.; Di Giorgio, F.; Viegas, C.; Ferreira, N.; Ferreira, J.; Soares, S.; Valente, A. (2025). Evaluation of PID-Based Algorithms for UGVs. Algorithms 2025, 18, 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/a18020063
Modarres, M., Almeida, M., Barbosa, T. F., & Viegas, D. X. (2025). Sensitivity analysis of CFD-chemical reactor network approach with reactor numbers for Sandia flames D and E. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 24, 100893. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CEJA.2025.100893
Mohammadpour, P., Viegas, D. X., Pereira, A., & Chuvieco, E. (2025). Multitemporal Sentinel and GEDI data integration for overstory and understory fuel type classification. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 139, 104455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104455
Muñoz, J. A., Planas, E., Almeida, M., Ribeiro, L. M., Vacca, P., & Pastor, E. (2025). A New Full‐Scale Method for Ranking Flammability of Ornamental Vegetation. Fire and Materials, 0, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.3284
Viegas Domingos Xavier, Ribeiro Carlos, Ribeiro Luís M., Almeida Miguel, Rodrigues Tiago, Barbosa Thiago Fernandes (2025) Analytical model to predict the self-induced acceleration and deceleration of a head fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire 34, WF24166. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24166
2024
Alves, D.; Almeida, M.; Reis, L.; Raposo, J.; Viegas, D.X. The Role of Field Measurements of Fine Dead Fuel Moisture Content in the Canadian Fire Weather Index System—A Study Case in the Central Region of Portugal. Forests 2024, 15, 1429. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15081429
Almeida M, Soviev M, San-Miguel J, Durrant T, Oom D, Branco A, Ferrari D, Boca R, Maianti P, De Rigo D, Suarez-Moreno M, Roglia E, Scionti N, Broglia M, Alves D, Matos C, Ribeiro LM, Viegas DX, Ribeiro C, Rodrigues T, Chuvieco E, Oliva P, Garcia M, Velea R, Laterza R, De Lucia M, Lorenzoni P, Arca B, Salis M, Bacciu V, Del Giudice L, Pelizzaro G, Duce P, Marrs C, Forkel M, Beetz K, Kosczor E, Podebradska M, Politi N, Sfetsos A, Vlachogiannis D, Eftychidis G, Stavrakoudis D, Varela V, Gitas IZ, Sjostrom J, Petrila M, Lorent A, Drobinkova N, Vasilev V, Tsvetkova N, Yanko B, Gospodinov I, Zibtsev S, Goldammer J, Myroniuk V, Sydorenko S, Soshenskyi O, Bogomolov V, Borsuk O (2024) ‘Report on the large wildfires of 2022 in Europe.’ Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2024, doi:10.2760/19760, JRC138859. https://doi.org/10.2760/19760, JRC138859.
Almeida, M. (Ed). (2024). A gestão do risco de incêndio rural em edifícios de habitação. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2592-8
Gameiro T, Pereira T, Viegas C, Di Giorgio F, Ferreira NF. Robots for Forest Maintenance. Forests. 2024; 15(2):381. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15020381
Lamsaf, H., Lamsaf, A., Kerroum, M. A., & Almeida, M. (2024). Assessing trends in wildland-urban interface fire research through text mining: a comprehensive analysis of published literature. Journal of Forestry Research, 35(1), 71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01722-w
Modarres M, Almeida M, Vaz G, Viegas DX, (2024) Analytical Formulations with Experimental Validation for Determining the Incident Heat Flux from Firefronts. Fire Safety Journal 147, 104205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2024.104205.
Modarres M, Almeida M, Viegas DX (2024) Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees. International Journal of Wildland Fire 33,. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF23131.
Pereira T, Gameiro T, Pedro J, Viegas C, Ferreira NF. Vision System for a Forestry Navigation Machine. Sensors. 2024; 24(5):1475. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24051475
Pereira J, Mendes J, Júnior JSS, Viegas C, Paulo JR (2024) Metaheuristic algorithms for calibration of two-dimensional wildfire spread prediction model. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 136,. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108928.
Viegas, D. X., Ribeiro, C., Barbosa, T. F., Rodrigues, T., & Ribeiro, L. M. (2024). A Fireline Displacement Model to Predict Fire Spread. Fire, 7(4), 121. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7040121
Viegas, D. X., Alves, D., Almeida, M., Ribeiro, L. M., Viegas, M. T., & Rodrigues, T. (2024). Field measurements of moisture content of dead leaves of Pinus pinaster (2014-2023) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13147079
2023
Almeida, M., Viegas, DX, Ribeiro LM (2023) IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 2). International Journal of Wildland Fire 32, 317-319. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF23037
Aragoneses, E., García, M., Salis, M., Ribeiro, L. M., & Chuvieco, E. (2023). Classification and mapping of European fuels using a hierarchical, multipurpose fuel classification system. Earth System Science Data, 15(3), 1287–1315. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1287-2023
Chehreh B, Moutinho A, Viegas C. Latest Trends on Tree Classification and Segmentation Using UAV Data—A Review of Agroforestry Applications. Remote Sensing. (2023); 15(9):2263. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15092263
Pereira T, Gameiro T, Viegas C, Santos V, Ferreira N. Sensor Integration in a Forestry Machine. Sensors. 2023; 23(24):9853. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23249853
Ribeiro C, Xavier Viegas DX, Raposo J, Reis L, Sharples J (2023) Slope effect on junction fire with two non-symmetric fire fronts. International Journal of Wildland Fire 32, 328-335. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF22152
Viegas DX, Ribeiro LM (2023) IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1). International Journal of Wildland Fire 32, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF23003
2022
Barbosa, T.F.; Reis, L.; Raposo, J.; Viegas, D.X. A Protection for LPG Domestic Cylinders at Wildland-Urban Interface Fire. Fire. 2022, 5, 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/ fire5030063
Carmo M.; Ferreira, João; Mendes, Manuela; Silva, Álvaro; Silva, Pedro; Alves, Daniela; Reis, Luís; Novo, Ilda; Xavier Viegas, Domingos (2022) The climatology of extreme wildfires in Portugal, 1980–2018: Contributions to forecasting and preparedness. International Journal of Climatology, Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 3123 - 3146. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.741
Dossi Simona, Messerschmidt Birgitte, Ribeiro Luís Mário, Almeida Miguel, Rein Guillermo (2022) Relationships between building features and wildfire damage in California, USA and Pedrógão Grande, Portugal. International Journal of Wildland Fire, https://doi.org/10.1071/WF22095
Fernandes AP, Lopes D, Sorte S, Monteiro A, Gama C, Reis J, Menezes I, Osswald T, Borrego C, Almeida M, Ribeiro LM, Viegas DX, Miranda AI (2022) Smoke emissions from the extreme wildfire events in central Portugal in October 2017. International Journal of Wildland Fire 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF21097
Júnior, J. S. S., Paulo, J. R., Mendes, J., Alves, D., Ribeiro, L. M., & Viegas, C. (2022). Automatic forest fire danger rating calibration: Exploring clustering techniques for regionally customizable fire danger classification. Expert Systems with Applications, 193, 116380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116380
Manzello SL, Suzuki S, Viegas DX and Liu N (2022) Editorial: Improved Understanding of Firebrand Processes During Large Scale Fire Disasters. Front. Mech. Eng 8:819633. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2022.819633
Mohammadpour, P.; Viegas, D.X.; Viegas, C. Vegetation Mapping with Random Forest Using Sentinel 2 and GLCM Texture Feature - A Case Study for Lousã Region, Portugal. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 4585. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14184585
Pinto, P.; Silva, Á.P.; Viegas, D.X.; Almeida, M.; Raposo, J.; Ribeiro, L.M. Influence of Convectively Driven Flows in the Course of a Large Fire in Portugal: The Case of Pedrógão Grande. Atmosphere 2022, 13, 414. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13030414
Ribeiro C, Reis L, Raposo J, Rodrigues A, Viegas DX, Sharples J (2022) Interaction between two parallel fire fronts under different wind conditions. International Journal of Wildland Fire 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF21120.
Rodrigues, A.; Santiago, A.; Laím, L.; Viegas, D.X.; Zêzere, J.L. Rural Fires—Causes of Human Losses in the 2017 Fires in Portugal. Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, 12561. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122412561
Vaz, G.; Raposo, J.; Reis, L.; Monteiro, P.; Viegas, D. Rigid Protection System of Infrastructures against Forest Fires. Fire 2022, 5, 145. .https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5050145
Viegas, C., Chehreh, B., Andrade, J. et al. Tethered UAV with Combined Multi-rotor and Water Jet Propulsion for Forest Fire Fighting. J Intell Robot Syst 104, 21 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-021-01532-w
Viegas D.X.; Raposo, J.R.; Nogueira; Ribeiro; C.M.; Reis, L.; Abouali, A.; Ribeiro, L.M.; Viegas, C.X. (2022) On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2. International Journal of Wildland Fire. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF2109
2021
Abouali, A.; D.X. Viegas, J.R. Raposo (2021). Analysis of the wind flow and fire spread dynamics over a sloped-ridgeline hill. Combustion and Flame 234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111724
Almeida, M, Porto L and Viegas D (2021). Characterization of Firebrands Released From Different Burning Tree Species. Front. Mech. Eng. 7:651135. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2021.651135
Almeida, M, em colaboração com www.florestas.pt (2021). Decisão apoiada por ferramentas de gestão florestal ajuda a conciliar objetivos e recursos. https://florestas.pt/conhecer/decisao-apoiada-por-ferramentas-de-gestao-florestal-ajuda-a-conciliar-objetivos-e-recursos/
Alves, D.; Almeida, M.; Viegas, D.X.; Novo, I.; Luna, M.Y. (2021). Fire Danger Harmonization Based on the Fire Weather Index for Transboundary Events between Portugal and Spain. Atmosphere. 12, 1087. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12091087
Carmo, M., Ferreira, J., Mendes, M., Silva, A., Silva, P., Alves, D., Reis, L., Novo, I., Viegas, D.X., (2021). The climatology of extreme wildfires in Portugal, 1980–2018: Contributions to forecasting and preparedness, International Journal of Climatology 2021; 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7411
Gonzalez, M; Almeida, M (2021). Adaptar a gestão florestal para promover ecossistemas e florestas mais resilientes.https://florestas.pt/conhecer/adaptar-a-gestao-florestal-para-promover-ecossistemas-e-florestas-mais-resilientes/
Pereira, D. J., Viegas, C., & Panão, M. R. (2021). Heat transfer model of fire protection fiberglass thermal barrier coated with thin aluminium layer. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 122301, , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.122301
Sabi, F.Z.; S.M.Terrah, O.Mosbah, A.Dilem, N.Hamamousse, A.Sahila, O.Harrouz, H.Boutchiche, F.Chaib, N.Zekri, A.Kaiss, J.-P.Clerc, F.Giroud, D.X.Viegas, (2021). Ignition/non-ignition phase transition: A new critical heat flux estimation method. Fire Safety Journal, Fire Safety Journal, Volume 119, January 2021, 103257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2020.103257
Storey, MA, Price OF, Almeida M, Ribeiro C, Bradstock RA, et al. (2021). Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction on fire rate of spread. PLOS ONE 16(1): e0245132. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245132
Viegas, D.X., Rodrigues, A., Abouali, A., Almeida, M., Raposo, J. (2021). Fire downwind a flat surface entering a canyon by lateral spread. Fire Safety Journal Volume 122, June 2021, 103349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2021.103349
Viegas, D. X., Oliveira, R., Almeida, M., & Kim, D. (2021). Ignition of fuel beds by cigarettes: a conceptual model to assess fuel bed moisture content and wind velocity effect on the ignition time and probability. Fire, 4(3), 35. MDPI. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire4030035
Viegas, D., Raposo, J., Ribeiro, C., Reis, L., Abouali, A., & Viegas, C. X. (2021). On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread. International Journal of Wildland Fire. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF21016
Viegas, C., Batista, R., Albino, M. Coelho, M., Andrade, A. J., Alves D., Viegas, D. X. (2021). Active Barrier Combining Fire-Resistant Fiberglass Fabric and Water Sprinkler System for Protection Against Forest Fires. Fire Technol 57, 189–206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-00991-1
2020
Ribeiro, L. M., Rodrigues, A., Lucas, D., & Viegas, D. X. (2020). The Impact on Structures of the Pedrógão Grande Fire Complex in June 2017 (Portugal). Fire, 3(4), 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire3040057
Sousa, MJ, Moutinho A, Almeida M. (2020). Thermal Infrared Sensing for Near Real-Time Data-Driven Fire Detection and Monitoring Systems. Sensors (Basel). Nov 28;20(23):6803. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20236803