Forecasting distributions of large federal-lands fires utilizing satellite and gridded weather information

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 508-516

  Preisler, Haiganoush K ^a   Burgan, Robert E ^b   Eidenshink, Jeffery C ^c   Klaver, Jacqueline M ^d   Klaver, Robert W ^c  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^d Independent Research Scientist   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire business; Fire danger; Fire distribution; Fire mapping; Fire occurrence; Semi parametric logistic regression; Spatial mapping; Statistical comparisons of fire danger indices.

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249123230     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08032     Document Type: Article

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