Modelling spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in South-Eastern Australia

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1800-1815

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Lim, Samsung ^a   Sharples, Jason John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

logistic regression; MODIS; occurrence; risk; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISKS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; OCCURRENCE; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WILDFIRE;

FIRES;

EID: 84961206622     PISSN: 19475705     EISSN: 19475713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2016.1155501     Document Type: Article

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