Implementation of quantitative bushfire risk analysis in a GIS environment

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 649-658

  Atkinson, Dale ^a   Chladil, Mark ^b   Janssen, Volker ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Tasmania Fire Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

bushfire simulation; fire behaviour; fire probabilities; modelling; Tasmania; wildfire threat analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955579358     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08185     Document Type: Article

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