Regional forest-fire susceptibility analysis in central Portugal using a probabilistic ratings procedure and artificial neural network weights assignment

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 776-791

  Dimuccio, Luca Antonio ^a,b   Ferreira, Rui ^a   Cunha, Lúcio ^a   Campar De Almeida, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

back propagation learning algorithm; burnt areas; forest fire susceptibility index; geographic information system; territorial management

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053113797     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF09083     Document Type: Article

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