Design of forest management planning DSS for wildfire risk reduction

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 122-133

  Kaloudis, Spiridon ^a   Costopoulou, Constantina I ^b   Lorentzos, Nikos A ^b   Sideridis, Alexander B ^b   Karteris, Michael ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Forest management planning; Geographic information systems; Wildfire Destruction Danger Index

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; PLANNING METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDFIRE;

EID: 40949140594     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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