Emergence of spatio-temporal patterns in forest-fire sequences

Devis Tuia, Rosa Lasaponara, Luciano Telesca and Mikhail Kanevski

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, issue 13, 3271-3280

Abstract: Temporal variation of spatial clustering in fire data recorded from 1997 to 2003 in Tuscany region, central Italy, has been investigated using the Voronoï polygon area, the Morishita index and the fractal dimension. Our findings reveal that the spatial clustering of fire events changes with time, showing an enhancement of the clustering degree before the largest events.

Keywords: Spatial clustering; Space-time analysis; Fractal dimension; Morisita index; Voronoï tessellation; Forest fires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.01.057

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