Predicting burned areas of forest fires: An artificial intelligence approach

Fire Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 106-118

  Castelli, Mauro ^a   Vanneschi, Leonardo ^a   Popovič, Aleš ^a,b  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Climatic data; Forest fires; Genetic programming; Portugal; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLIMATE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; PREDICTION;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84926339792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.1101106     Document Type: Article

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