Fire occurrence patterns at landscape level: Beyond positional accuracy of ignition points with kernel density estimation methods

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-375

  Koutsias, Nikos ^a   Kalabokidis, Kostas D ^b   Allgöwer, Britta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Kernel density estimation; Positional inaccuracies; Wildland fire ignition points; Wildland fire occurrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845402841     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2004.tb00141.x     Document Type: Article

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