Modeling fire susceptibility to delineate wildland-urban interface for municipal-scale fire risk management

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1427-1439

  Whitman, Ellen ^a   Rapaport, Eric ^a   Sherren, Kate ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

NDVI; Peri urban; Remote sensing; Risk management; Wildfire; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; FIRE BEHAVIOR MODELING; FIRE-RISK MANAGEMENT; MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENTS; NDVI; PERI-URBAN; WILDFIRE; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; RISK MANAGEMENT;

FIRES;

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; MODELING; NDVI; PERIURBAN AREA; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIRE PROTECTION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL MODEL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE; CANADA; CITY; FIRE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILDERNESS;

FIRES; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CITIES; FIRES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOVA SCOTIA; RISK MANAGEMENT; WILDERNESS;

EID: 84889885432     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0159-9     Document Type: Article

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