Evaluating spatially-explicit burn probabilities for strategic fire management planning

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2008, Pages 245-252

  Miller, C ^a   Parisien, M A ^b,c   Ager, A A ^d   Finney, M A ^e  

^a USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn probability; Fuel treatments; Simulation modelling; Strategic planning; Wildland fire risk

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS BURNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WILDFIRE;

EID: 58849141323     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/FIVA080251     Document Type: Article

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