Comparison of techniques for visualising fire behaviour

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 621-635

  Black, Julian ^a   Arrowsmith, Colin ^a   Black, Michael ^a   Cartwright, William ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire modelling; Geographic visualisation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION; VISUALIZATION; WIND;

AUSTRALIA; BUSHFIRES; EASTERN REGIONS; FIRE BEHAVIOUR; FIRE DANGER; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE MODELING; FOREST FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION; SUMMER FIRES;

FIRES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; VISUALIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 34548031160     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01063.x     Document Type: Article

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