Spatial modelling of socioeconomic data to understand patterns of human-caused wildfire ignition risk in the SW of Madrid (central Spain)

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-45

  Romero Calcerrada, R ^a   Barrio Parra, F ^a   Millington, J D A ^b   Novillo, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Human caused fires; Ignition risk; Socioeconomic factors; Spatial modelling of independent variables; Spatial pattern; Weights of Evidence

Indexed keywords

GIS; HUMAN-CAUSED FIRES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; SPATIAL MODELLING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; WEIGHTS OF EVIDENCE;

DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

FIRES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOPHYSICS; DATA SET; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING; WILDFIRE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MADRID [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EUCLIDIA;

EID: 70449698620     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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