Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Cooke III, H. William
Committee Member
Choi, Jinmu
Committee Member
Rodgers, C. John
Date of Degree
8-9-2008
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Geosciences
Degree Name
Master of Science
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of Geosciences
Abstract
An analysis of the fire occurrences parameters is essential to save human lives, property, timber resources and conservation of biodiversity. Data conversion formats such as raster to ASCII facilitate the integration of various GIS software’s in the context of RS and GIS modeling. This research explores fire occurrences in relation to human interaction, fuel density interaction, euclidean distance from the perennial streams and slope using artificial neural networks. The human interaction (ignition source) and density of fuels is assessed by Newton’s Gravitational theory. Euclidean distance to perennial streams and slope that do posses a significant role were derived using GIS tools. All the four non linear predictor variables were modeled using the inductive nature of neural networks. The Self organizing feature map (SOM) utilized for fire size risk classification produced an overall classification accuracy of 62% and an overall kappa coefficient of 0.52 that is moderate (fair) for annual fires.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15280
Recommended Citation
Tiruveedhula, Mohan P., "Artificial neural networks to detect forest fire prone areas in the southeast fire district of Mississippi" (2008). Theses and Dissertations. 731.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/731