A Space-Time Model for Wild Fires in Portugal

Forest fires severity has increased in Portugal in the last decades. Forest ecosystem managers and policy-makers thus face the challenge of developing effective fire prevention policies. Geographical information systems allied to convenient statistical methods prove to be quite helpful for this. We...

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Main Author: Natário, Isabel (author)
Other Authors: Oliveira, Manuela (author), Carvalho, Lucilia M. (author), Marques, Susete (author), Borges, Jose (author)
Format: lecture
Language:eng
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Bayesian hierarchical space-time model
fire risk
geographic information systems
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/4485
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/4485

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