Landfire hazard assessment in the Caspian Hyrcanian forest ecoregion with the long-term MODIS active fire data

• Published in: Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Vol. 87; no. 3; pp. 1807 - 1825
• Main Author: Adab, Hamed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.07.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anthropogenic factors; Area; Assembly; Banks (topography); Civil Engineering; Climate; Data; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environmental factors; Environmental Management; Fires; Forest & brush fires; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hazard assessment; Human influences; Hydrogeology; Methods; MODIS; Moisture; Natural Hazards; Nonlinearity; Original Paper; Parameters; Risk assessment; Slope; Topography; Topography (geology); Vegetation; Landfire; Artificial neural network; Binary logistic regression; Geographic information system
• ISSN: 0921-030X; 1573-0840
• DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2850-2

Relatively little is known about the causes of landfire assembly in Golestan Province that are subject to environmental and anthropogenic factors. The present study investigated how the landfire hazard is influenced by the environmental and anthropogenic parameters in the fire-prone Hyrcanian forest...