A decision support system applying an integrated fuzzy model for long-term forest fire risk estimation

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 613-621

  Iliadis, L S ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Long term forest fire risk; Semi trapezoidal membership function; Semi triangular membership function

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; FIRE PROTECTION; FORESTRY; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY SETS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CLUSTER REGIONS; FIRE RISKS; FOREST DESTRUCTION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD;

DECISION MAKING; FOREST FIRES; FUZZY LOGIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC ALLIANCES;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 9944247180     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.03.006     Document Type: Article

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