Forest Fires

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Publications

• Boychuk, D., Braun, W.J., Kulperger, R.J., Krougly, Z. and Stanford, D. (2008)
  A stochastic model for forest fire growth. 45, 9-16. DOI: 0.3138/infor.45.1.9
• Boychuk, D., Braun, W.J., Kulperger, R.J., Krougly, Z. and Stanford, D. (2008)
  A stochastic forest fire growth model. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 16, 133-151. DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0079-z
• Lee, T., Zeng, L., Dean, C.B., Parish, R., Cameron, I. and Goudie, J. (2009)
  Joint modelling of tree growth and mortality data. Submitted.
• Ramaswami, V., Woolford, D.G. and Stanford D.A. (2008)
  The Erlangization Method for Markovian Fluid Flows. Annals of Operations Research, 160, 215-225. DOI: 10.1007/s10479- 008-0309-2>
• Turner, R. (2008)
  Point Patterns of Forest Fire Locations.Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 16, 197-223. DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0085-1
• Vilar, L., Woolford, D.G., Martell, D.L., and Martin, M. (2010)
  A model for predicting human- caused wildfire occurrence in the region of Madrid, Spain. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 325-337.
• Wan, V. (2009)
  Smoke Plume Estimation from Satellite Images. MSc Thesis, Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
• Wan, V., Braun, W.J., Dean, C.B., and Henderson, S. (2010)
  A Comparison of Classification Algorithms for the Identification of Smoke Plumes from Satellite Images. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 20, 131-156. DOI: 10.1177/0962280210372454
• Woolford, D.G., Bellhouse, D.R., Braun, W.J., Dean, C.B., Martell, D.L., and Sun, J. (2010)
  A Spatio-temporal Model for People-Caused Forest Fire Occurrence in the Romeo Malette Forest. Journal Environmental Statistics. In press.
• Woolford, D.G. and Braun, W.J. (2007)
  Convergent data sharpening for the identification and tracking of spatial-temporal centers of lightning activity. Environmetrics, 18, 4661-479. DOI: 10.1002/env.815.
• Woolford, D.G., Braun, W.J., Dean, C.B. and Martell, D.L. (2009)
  Site-specific seasonal baselines for fire risk in Ontario. GEOMATICA, 63(4), 355-363.
• Woolford, D.G., Braun, W.J, Martell, D.L. and Albert-Green, A. (2009)
  Modelling the Ontario Fire Weather Index. Under revision.
• Woolford, D.G., Cao, J., Dean, C.B., Martell, D.L. (2010)
  Looking for climate change signals in the fire ignition record for a region of the Canadian boreal forest. Environmetrics 21, 1-8.
• Woolford, D., Dean, C.B., Martell, D. and Braun, J. (2009)
  A Modelling Framework for the Seasonal Variation of Forest Fire Characteristics. Under revision.
• Xu, J. and Guttorp, P. (2010)
  Climate change, trends in extremes, and model assessment. Submitted.
• Zhou, L. and Braun, W.J. (2006)
  Ideas about forestry data visualization, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Computing Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA.