Predicting fire occurrence patterns with logistic regression in Heilongjiang Province, China

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1989-2004

  Chang, Yu ^a   Zhu, Zhiliang ^b   Bu, Rencang ^a   Chen, Hongwei ^a   Feng, Yuting ^a   Li, Yuehui ^a   Hu, Yuanman ^a   Wang, Zhicheng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Heilongjiang Forest Fire Prevention Office   (China)

Author keywords

China; Fire occurrence; Forest fire; Heilongjiang province; Logistic regression; Receiver operating characteristic curve

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; FUELWOOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS; HEILONGJIANG;

EID: 84888297611     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9935-4     Document Type: Article

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