Evaluation of forest fire risk with GIS

Polish Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 187-194

  Sivrikaya, Fatih ^a   Saǧlam, Bülent ^b   Akay, Abdullah E ^a   Bozali, Nuri ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ARTVIN CORUH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fire risk map; Fire tower; GIS; Mediterranean region; Visibility analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893463361     PISSN: 12301485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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