Modeling wildfire potential in residential parcels: A case study of the north-central Colorado Front Range

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-126

  Platt, Rutherford V ^a   Schoennagel, Tania ^b   Veblen, Thomas T ^b   Sherriff, Rosemary L ^c  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flammap; Land use change; Wildfire hazard; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; FUELS; HAZARDS; HOUSING; LAND USE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

50TH PERCENTILES; COLORADO FRONT RANGE; FLAMMAP; LAND-USE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; VISUAL DEGRADATIONS; WILDFIRE HAZARDS; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

FIRES;

BEETLE; BIOFUEL; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND USE CHANGE; MORTALITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEST OUTBREAK; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WILDFIRE; ZONATION;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 79959807955     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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