Improved prediction methods for wildfires using high performance computing: A comparison

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3991 LNCS - I, Issue , 2006, Pages 539-546

  Bianchini, Germán ^a   Cortés, Ana ^a   Margalef, Tomàs ^a   Luque, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINUX CLUSTER; PARALLEL SCHEMES; UNCERTAINTY SCHEMES; WILDLAND SIMULATORS;

FIRE PROTECTION;

FIRE PROTECTION; FORESTRY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746581889     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11758501_73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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