Assessing long-term fire risk at local scale by means of decision tree technique

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Amatulli, Giuseppe ^a,b   Rodrigues, Maria João ^c   Trombetti, Marco ^b,d   Lovreglio, Raffaella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c Institute of Methodologies of Environmental Analysis National Research Council ^*  (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; GIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDFIRE;

EID: 34848841549     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JG000133     Document Type: Article

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