Relating surface fire spread to landscape structure: An application of FARSITE in a managed forest landscape

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-283

  Ryu, Soung Ryoul ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^a   Zheng, Daolan ^a   Lacroix, Jacob J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Burned area; Fragmentation; Fuel loading; Heterogeneity; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS;

AREA WEIGHTED MEAN SHAPE INDEX; BURNED AREAS; FUEL LOADING; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

URBAN PLANNING;

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY MODELING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PLANNING PROCESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY; FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY;

CHEQUAMEGON NATIONAL FOREST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 36148966595     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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