Journal
STATISTICAL SCIENCE
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 586-615Publisher
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/13-STS451
Keywords
Environmetrics; forest fire; prediction; review; wildland fire
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- Natural Resources Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences [1106862] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Wildfire is an important system process of the earth that occurs across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. A variety of methods have been used to predict wildfire phenomena during the past century to better our understanding of fire processes and to inform fire and land management decision-making. Statistical methods have an important role in wildfire prediction due to the inherent stochastic nature of fire phenomena at all scales. Predictive models have exploited several sources of data describing fire phenomena. Experimental data are scarce; observational data are dominated by statistics compiled by government fire management agencies, primarily for administrative purposes and increasingly from remote sensing observations. Fires are rare events at many scales. The data describing fire phenomena can be zero-heavy and nonstationary over both space and time. Users of fire modeling methodologies are mainly fire management agencies often working under great time constraints, thus, complex models have to be efficiently estimated. We focus on providing an understanding of some of the information needed for fire management decision-making and of the challenges involved in predicting fire occurrence, growth and frequency at regional, national and global scales.
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