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Following huge forest fire of May 1987, the Chinese government has paid more attention to combat forest fires using modern science and technology measures. The Ministry of Forestry, using a World Bank loan, constructed several fire management and engineering projects. One of these projects is an Automatic Fire Weather Station Network system which has been designed for Daxinganling forest area in the northwestern corner of northeast China. It include 46 automatic stations, 20 store-and-forward Ultrahigh Frequency repeaters and 30 base stations linked to microwave main line by modems. The data can be collected and used for decision making on firefighting and prevention.
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Bangyu, C., Xiaozhong, J. (1996). Managing Forest Fires: An Automatic Fire Weather Station Network in China. In: El-Sabh, M.I., Venkatesh, S., Denis, H., Murty, T.S. (eds) Land-Based and Marine Hazards. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0273-2_21
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