Optimize landscape fuel treatment locations to create control opportunities for future fires

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1002-1014

  Wei, Yu ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIGUOUS AREA; FIRE CONTROL; FIRE DURATION; FIRE INTENSITY; FIRE LOSS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE SUPPRESSION; FUEL TREATMENTS; GRID CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; NATIONAL PARKS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; POTENTIAL MODEL; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEST CASE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FUELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FIRES;

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; HETEROGENEITY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; TRADE-OFF; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CALIFORNIA; KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK; SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862151756     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X2012-051     Document Type: Article

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