Wildland fire growth prediction method based on Multiple Overlapping Solution

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 229-237

  Bianchini, Germán ^a   Denham, Mónica ^b   Cortés, Ana ^b   Margalef, Tomàs ^b   Luque, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA NACIONAL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest fire prediction; High Performance Computing; Statistical System

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; DATA-DRIVEN; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; FOREST FIRE PREDICTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INPUT PARAMETER; PARAMETER SET; PREDICTION METHODS; QUALITY PREDICTION; REAL SITUATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL SYSTEMS; WILDLAND FIRE; WIND DIRECTIONS;

DEFORESTATION; FIRES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 78649503580     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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