Space-time fractal properties of the forest-fire series in central Italy

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1326-1333

  Telesca, Luciano ^a   Amatucci, Giuseppe ^b   Lasaponara, Rosa ^a   Lovallo, Michele ^a   Rodrigues, Maria Joao ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlation dimension; Fano factor; Fires; Fractal analysis

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CORRELATION DIMENSION; FANO FACTOR; FOREST-FIRE SERIES; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SPACE-TIME FRACTAL PROPERTIES; WILDFIRES;

FIRES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; FIRES; FRACTAL DIMENSION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 34047161778     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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