Detection of fire high-risk areas in northern forests of iran using dong model

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 770-773

  Eskandari, Saeedeh ^a   Ghadikolaei, Jafar Oladi ^a   Jalilvand, Hamid ^a   Saradjian, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a SARI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

District three of neka zalemroud forests; Dong model; Fire; Gis; Risk potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890600101     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.27.06.503     Document Type: Article

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