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Abstract #301766

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Activity Number: 312
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: General Methodology
Abstract - #301766
Title: Description and Classification of Wildfire Patterns Using Prototype Point Processes
Author(s): Frederic P. Schoenberg*+ and Edward A. Johnson
Companies: University of California, Los Angeles and University of Calgary
Address: Dept. of Statistics, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1554,
Keywords: point process ; wildfires ; prototypes ; distance metrics
Abstract:

The behavior and structure of historical wildfire patterns, inferred from tree scars, are summarized using prototype point patterns. These prototypes are used not only as summaries of fire interval patterns but also to identify outliers and to classify regions of forest into groups of trees exhibiting similar behavior.

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