Integration of lightning- and human-caused wildfire occurrence models

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 340-364

  Vilar, L ^a   Nieto, H ^b,c   Martin M P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AUC; Fire risk; Fire risk indices; Mahalanobis Distance; Probabilistic; Receiver Operating Characteristic; ROC

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950993731     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807031003670469     Document Type: Article

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