Assessing lightning and wildfire hazard by land properties and cloud to ground lightning data with association rule mining in Alberta, Canada

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Cha, DongHwan ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Kim, Jeong Woo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association rule mining; Cloud to ground (CG) lightning; Hotspot analysis; Wildfire hazard in Alberta

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; FIRES; FORESTRY; HAZARDS; LAND USE; LIGHTNING; WETLANDS;

ALBERTA; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HOT SPOT; LIGHTNING FREQUENCY; RULE MINING TECHNIQUES; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; SIMILARITY MEASUREMENTS;

CLOUDS;

ALBERTA; ARTICLE; FOREST; LAND USE; LIGHTNING; MINING; NONHUMAN; SHRUB; WETLAND; WILDFIRE;

EID: 85032577383     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17102413     Document Type: Article

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