Forests cover over a third of the total land area of Europe. In recent years, large forest fires
have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries. Fire danger is …

Aim Topography, climate and plant water stress influence the spatial patterns of burn
severity (damage to soils and vegetation associated with wildfires); however, the relative …

It is generally accepted that year-to-year variability in moisture conditions and drought are
linked with increased wildfire occurrence. However, quantifying the sensitivity of wildfire to …

Electricity infrastructures are critical lifeline systems that are designed to serve with a high
degree of reliability the power supply of consumers under normal operating conditions and …

Support vector regression (SVR) and the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) are
two well-known and powerful artificial intelligence techniques which have been frequently …

The fire season of 2007 was particularly devastating for Greece, achieving the new all-time
record of estimated burnt area (225,734 ha) since 1980. The season was remarkably severe …

The concept of fire regime can be used to describe, with different degrees of complexity, the
spatial and temporal patterns of fires and their effects within a given area and over a given …

Understanding how fire weather danger indices changed in the past and how such changes
affected forest fire activity is important in a changing climate. We used the Canadian Fire …

Frequent forest fires cause severe damage to the ecological service functions of forest
ecosystems. Machine learning (ML) techniques have gained widespread use for forest fire …

Abstract The Etoliko Lagoon in western Greece has experienced extensive human
modification since the 20th century, both on the surrounding land and in the aquatic …