Development of a framework for fire risk assessment using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-58

  Chuvieco, Emilio ^a   Aguado, Inmaculada ^a   Yebra, Marta ^a   Nieto, Héctor ^a   Salas, Javier ^a   Martín, M Pilar ^a,b   Vilar, Lara ^b   Martínez, Javier ^b   Martín, Susana ^c   Ibarra, Paloma ^d   de la Riva, Juan ^d   Baeza, Jaime ^e   Rodríguez, Francisco ^f   Molina, Juan R ^f   Herrera, Miguel A ^f   Zamora, Ricardo ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b CSIC Instituto de Economia Geografia y Demografia IEGD   (Spain)

^c Technical University of Madrid   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fire danger; Fire risk; Fuel moisture content; Geographic information systems; Human factors; Lightning; Logistic regression; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FUELS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; LIGHTNING; REMOTE SENSING; RISK PERCEPTION; VEGETATION;

FIRE DANGER; FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT; FIRE RISKS; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; VEGETATION SUCCESSIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR QUALITY; FOREST FIRE; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MOISTURE CONTENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL DEGRADATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AIR QUALITY; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FUELS; GIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIGHTNING; MOISTURE CONTENT; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70450260872     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.11.017     Document Type: Article

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