Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires

Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires

The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the spatial manifestation of human communities coupled with vegetated ecosystems. Spatial delineation of the WUI is important for wildfire policy and management, but is typically defined according to spatial relationships between housing development and wildland...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Miranda, Jaime Carrasco, Mauro González, Cristobal Pais, Antonio Lara, Adison Altamirano, Andrés Weintraub, Alexandra D Syphard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
rural-urban interface
machine learning
artificial intelligence
landscape planning
fire ignitions
Chile
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9be5

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9be5

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