A comparison of forest fire indices for predicting fire risk in contrasting climates in China

Natural Hazards

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1339-1356

  Li, Xiaowei ^a,b   Zhao, Gang ^a,b   Yu, Xiubo ^a   Yu, Qiang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire danger indices; Fire risk probability; Forest fire; Semiparametric logistic regression

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST FIRE; NDVI; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84891090960     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0877-6     Document Type: Article

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