A Multidisciplinary Decision Support System for Forest Fire Crisis Management

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 212-225

  Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a   Kiranoudis, Chris T ^b   Sarimveis, Haralambos ^b   Sifakis, Nicolaos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Decision support system; Fire spread model; Remote sensing; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; FIRE PROTECTION; FORESTRY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

FOREST FIRES; MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE PROTECTION; FOREST; GREECE; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; MONITOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TECHNOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FIRES; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS;

ATTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PENTELI MOUNTAIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 2442621445     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0092-4     Document Type: Article

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