A model for predicting human-caused wildfire occurrence in the region of Madrid, Spain

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-337

  Vilar, Lara ^a   Woolford, Douglas G ^b   Martell, David L ^b   Martn, M Pilar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire risk; Generalised additive models; Geographic information systems; Iogistic; Non parametric spline smoothing; Socioeconomic variables; Urban interface; Wildland; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952501976     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF09030     Document Type: Article

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