Assessing wildfire exposure in the Wildland-Urban Interface area of the mountains of central Argentina

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 196, Issue , 2017, Pages 499-510

  Arganaraz J P ^a   Radeloff, V C ^b   Bar Massada, A ^c   Gavier Pizarro, G I ^d   Scavuzzo, C M ^e   Bellis, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^e Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Burn probability; Latin America; Point based approach; Wildfire exposure; WUI mapping

Indexed keywords

FIRES; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARGENTINA; BURN PROBABILITIES; EMPIRICAL MODEL; INTERFACE MAPPING; LATIN AMERICA; POINT BASED APPROACHES; WILDFIRE EXPOSURE; WILDLAND; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE MAPPING;

VEGETATION;

DIGITIZATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRE HISTORY; INTERFACE; MOUNTAIN REGION; OCEANIA ECOZONE; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILDERNESS AREA; WILDFIRE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALTITUDE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRE; FOREST; GRASSLAND; HOUSING; HUMAN; LAND USE; NEIGHBORHOOD; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCRUB; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ARGENTINA; EUROPE; LATIN AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA;

ARGENTINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUROPE; FIRES; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 85016010040     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.03.058     Document Type: Article

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