Modeling wildland fire susceptibility using fuzzy systems

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 268-282

  Ercanoglu, Murat ^a   Weber, Keith T ^b   Langille, Jackie ^b   Neves, Richard ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; PARAMETERIZATION; WILDFIRE;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750212501     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.43.3.268     Document Type: Article

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