Setting wildfire evacuation trigger points using fire spread modeling and GIS

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 603-617

  Cova, Thomas J ^a   Dennison, Philip E ^a   Kim, Tae H ^a   Moritz, Max A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

'CURRENT; CALIFORNIA; CASE-STUDIES; DECISION MAKERS; EVACUATION TIME; FIRE SPREAD MODEL; TRIGGER POINTS;

FIRES;

FIRE MANAGEMENT; GIS; MODELING; WARNING SYSTEM; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30844444899     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2005.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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