Assessing wildfire destruction danger: A decision support system incorporating uncertainty

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-38

  Kaloudis, Spiros ^a   Tocatlidou, Athena ^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 System; Fuzzy Sets; Uncertainty Management; Wildfire management; Wildfire risk

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FIRE DESTRUCTION; FIRE SEVERITY (FS);

ECOLOGY;

FIRE HISTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 7044269592     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.06.021     Document Type: Article

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