Global expansion of wildland-urban interface (WUI) and WUI fires: insights from a multiyear worldwide unified database (WUWUI)

Global expansion of wildland-urban interface (WUI) and WUI fires: insights from a multiyear worldwide unified database (WUWUI)

Fires in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are an important issue globally. To understand the change of WUI, we develop a 9 km worldwide unified wildland-urban interface database for 2001–2020 with Random Forest models and satellite data. We find that WUI has been increasing in all populated contin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wenfu Tang, Cenlin He, Louisa Emmons, Junzhe Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
wildland-urban interface
fire
burned area
future projection
MODIS
fire counts
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad31da

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