- Author
- Simard, A. J. | Graham, J. D. | Muir, A. S.
- Title
- Development of Computer Processing Techniques for Individual Forest Fire Report Data.
- Coporate
- Forest Fire Research Inst., Ontario, Canada
- Report
- Information Report FF-X-40, July 1973, 85 p.
- Keywords
- forest fires | fire data | data processing | data analysis | time | simulation
- Abstract
- The relationships between varying types of problems, analytical techniques, and data availability are discussed. The nature, characteristics, and availability of forest fire data is also discussed. A data processing procedure is presented, whereby raw uncoded, incomplete, and sometimes inaccurate forest fire data is converted to a uniform, complete, and reasonably accurate data file. The last part of the report is devoted to procedures for filling in missing information. Lastly, the appendices contain all of the codes used in this project.