Wildfire Risk Assessment in a Typical Mediterranean Wildland–Urban Interface of Greece

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 900-915

  Mitsopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Mallinis, Giorgos ^b   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fine scale fuel mapping; Landscape fire modeling; Mediterranean basin; Wildfire risk; wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; FUELS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TRAVEL TIME;

FIRE MODELING; FUEL MAPPING; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; WILDFIRE RISKS; WILDLAND;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHM; CITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; GREECE; HOUSING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILDERNESS;

ALGORITHMS; CITIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; GREECE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; WILDERNESS;

EID: 84939996109     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0432-6     Document Type: Article

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