Assessing wildfire risk in cultural heritage properties using high spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery and spatially explicit fire simulations: The case of Holy Mount Athos, Greece

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Mallinis, Giorgos ^a   Mitsopoulos, Ioannis ^b   Beltran, Esteban ^b   Goldammer, Johann Georg ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Landsat 8; Landscape wildfire behavior; Random forests; RapidEye; UNESCO World Heritage Properties; Wildfire exposure

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; FUELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRAVEL TIME;

LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE WILDFIRE BEHAVIOR; RANDOM FORESTS; RAPIDEYE; UNESCO WORLD HERITAGES; WILDFIRE EXPOSURE;

FIRES;

CULTURAL HERITAGE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RAPIDEYE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNESCO; WILDFIRE; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

GREECE;

EID: 84960420633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7020046     Document Type: Article

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