Development of a synthetic record of fire probability and proportion of late fires from simulated growth of ground stratum and annual rainfall in the Australian tropical savanna zone

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1214-1229

  Hill, Michael J ^a,b   Roxburgh, Stephen H ^a,c   Carter, John O ^a,d   Barrett, Damian J ^a,e  

^a Research School of Biological Sciences   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Mines and Water   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Fire footprints; Moving window; Multiple regression; Rangelands; Savanna; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE PROTECTION; PROBABILITY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; VEGETATION;

AVHRR; FIRE FOOTPRINTS; MOVING WINDOWS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RANGELANDS; SAVANNA; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

DATA; FIRE; FOREST COVER; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33646373914     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.06.008     Document Type: Article

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