Modeling forest fire danger from geographic information systems

Geocarto International

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-23

  Castro, Roberto ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; FOREST FIRE; GIS; MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHILE; VALPARAISO;

EID: 0031789195     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049809354624     Document Type: Article

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