Forest Fire Risk Assessment: An Illustrative Example from Ontario, Canada

This paper presents an analysis of ignition and burn risk due to wildfire in a region of Ontario, Canada using a methodology which is applicable to the entire boreal forest region. A generalized additive model was employed to obtain ignition risk probabilities and a burn probability map using only h...

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Main Authors: W. John Braun, Bruce L. Jones, Jonathan S. W. Lee, Douglas G. Woolford, B. Mike Wotton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/823018
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