Modeling anthropogenic fire occurrence in the boreal forest of China using logistic regression and random forests

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Guo, Futao ^a   Zhang, Lianjun ^b   Jin, Sen ^c   Tigabu, Mulualem ^d   Su, Zhangwen ^a   Wang, Wenhui ^a  

^a FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Daxing'an Mountains; Driving factors; Forest fire; Human caused fire; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; DAXING'AN MOUNTAINS; DRIVING FACTORS; FOREST FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; ROC CURVES;

FIRES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 85002342278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7110250     Document Type: Article

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