Multifractal behavior of wild-land and forest fire time series in Brazil

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 392, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 6367-6374

  De Benicio, Rosilda B ^a   Stošić, Tatijana ^a   De Figueiredo P H ^a   Stošić, Borko D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Forest fires; Hotspots; Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis; Power law

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; FRACTALS; PIXELS; POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION; TIME SERIES;

DECREASING FUNCTIONS; FOREST FIRES; HOTSPOTS; MULTIFRACTAL BEHAVIOR; MULTIFRACTAL DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRUM; POWER-LAW; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES;

EID: 84885052836     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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