Modeling and mapping wildfire ignition risk in Portugal

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 921-931

  Catry, Filipe X ^a   Rego, Francisco C ^a   Bação, Fernando L ^b   Moreira, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Ignition occurrence; Logistic regression; Spatial patterns.

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149094839     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF07123     Document Type: Article

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