Spatial patterns of lightning-ignited forest fires in Daxing'an mountains, Heilongjiang province, China, 1973-1997

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 183-185, Issue , 2011, Pages 2268-2274

  Guo, FuTao ^a   Hu, HaiQing ^a   Sun, Long ^a   Ma, ZhiHai ^b  

^a NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Daxing'an mountains; K function; Lightning fire; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

DAXING'AN MOUNTAINS; FIRE LOCATIONS; FOREST FIRES; K-FUNCTION; LIGHTNING-IGNITED FOREST FIRES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; LANDFORMS; LIGHTNING;

FIRES;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHINA; DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; LIGHTNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79751488505     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.183-185.2268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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