A data-driven approach to assess large fire size generation in Greece

Natural Hazards

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1591-1607

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Ministry of Environment Greece   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fire management; Greece; Large fires; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; MACHINE LEARNING; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER;

GREECE;

EID: 85019648274     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2934-z     Document Type: Article

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