Design and implementation of an integrated GIS-based cellular automata model to characterize forest fire behaviour

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 210, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 71-84

  Yassemi, S ^a   Dragicevic S ^a   Schmidt, M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Forest fire behaviour; Geographic information system (GIS); Simulation methods; Spatio temporal modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

FOREST FIRE BEHAVIOR; SIMULATION METHODS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELING; WEATHER VARIABLES;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; GIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; GIS; SIMULATION;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 36049013617     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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