Artificial neural network approach for modeling the impact of population density and weather parameters on forest fire risk

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 640-647

  Li, Li Ming ^a   Song, Wei Guo ^a   Ma, Jian ^a   Satoh, Kohyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Fire danger rating; Fire probability.

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349503555     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF07136     Document Type: Article

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