Search Results - "Kostas Kalabokidis"

Diverging rationalities between forest fire management services and the general public after the 21st-century mega-fires in Greece by Troumbis, Andreas Y., Kalabokidis, Kostas, Palaiologou, Palaiologos

“…Wildfire risk related to hazards on people and assets is expected to increase in the face of climate change, especially in fire-prone environments such as the…”
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Locating Forest Management Units Using Remote Sensing and Geostatistical Tools in North-Central Washington, USA by Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Essen, Maureen, Hogland, John, Kalabokidis, Kostas

“…In this study, we share an approach to locate and map forest management units with high accuracy and with relatively rapid turnaround. Our study area consists…”
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Development of Comprehensive Fuel Management Strategies for Reducing Wildfire Risk in Greece by Palaiologos Palaiologou, Kostas Kalabokidis, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day

“…A solution to the growing problem of catastrophic wildfires in Greece will require a more holistic fuel management strategy that focuses more broadly on…”
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Wildfire-Residential Risk Analysis Using Building Characteristics and Simulations to Enhance Structural Fire Resistance in Greece by Menemenlis, Dimitrios, Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Kalabokidis, Kostas

“…Urban areas adjacent to wildlands are very dangerous zones for residents and their properties during a wildfire event. We attempted to connect wildfire…”
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Optimizing Fuel Treatments Allocation to Protect the Wildland–Urban Interface from Large-Scale Wildfires in Greece by Bachantourian, Margarita, Kalabokidis, Kostas, Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Chaleplis, Kyriakos

“…A crucial risk governance priority of the Greek forest managers is to reduce damages in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) by controlling wildfire behavior…”
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Spatial Optimization and Tradeoffs of Alternative Forest Management Scenarios in Macedonia, Greece by Palaiologos Palaiologou, Kostas Kalabokidis, Alan A. Ager, Spyros Galatsidas, Lampros Papalampros, Michelle A. Day

“…Managing forests has been demonstrated to be an efficient strategy for fragmenting fuels and for reducing fire spread rates and severity. However, large-scale…”
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Socio-Ecological Perceptions of Wildfire Management and Effects in Greece by Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Kalabokidis, Kostas, Troumbis, Andreas, Day, Michelle A., Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Ager, Alan A.

“…Adapting to the growing frequency of catastrophic wildfires in Greece and mitigating their effects is a complex socio-ecological problem. We used an online…”
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Evaluation of MODIS, Climate Change Initiative, and CORINE Land Cover Products Based on a Ground Truth Dataset in a Mediterranean Landscape by Bachantourian, Margarita, Chaleplis, Kyriakos, Gemitzi, Alexandra, Kalabokidis, Kostas, Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Vasilakos, Christos

“…Land cover can reflect global environmental changes if their associated transitions are quantitatively and correctly analysed, thus helping to assess the…”
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Evaluating Socioecological Wildfire Effects in Greece with a Novel Numerical Index by Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Kalabokidis, Kostas, Day, Michelle A., Kopsachilis, Vasilis

“…Large-scale wildfires have become more frequent in Greece and coupled with the country’s limited economic resources, investments in both pre-fire planning and…”
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Modelling Fire Behavior to Assess Community Exposure in Europe: Combining Open Data and Geospatial Analysis by Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Kalabokidis, Kostas, Day, Michelle A., Ager, Alan A., Galatsidas, Spyros, Papalampros, Lampros

“…Predicting where the next large-scale wildfire event will occur can help fire management agencies better prepare for taking preventive actions and improving…”
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Effect of Climate Change Projections on Forest Fire Behavior and Values-at-Risk in Southwestern Greece by Kostas Kalabokidis, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Evangelos Gerasopoulos, Christos Giannakopoulos, Effie Kostopoulou, Christos Zerefos

“…Climate change has the potential to influence many aspects of wildfire behavior and risk. During the last decade, Greece has experienced large-scale wildfire…”
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Neural-Network Time-Series Analysis of MODIS EVI for Post-Fire Vegetation Regrowth by Vasilakos, Christos, Tsekouras, George E., Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Kalabokidis, Kostas

“…The time-series analysis of multi-temporal satellite data is widely used for vegetation regrowth after a wildfire event. Comparisons between pre- and post-fire…”
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Multivariate analysis of landscape wildfire dynamics in a Mediterranean ecosystem of Greece by Kalabokidis, Kostas D, Koutsias, Nikos, Konstantinidis, Pavlos, Vasilakos, Christos

“…This paper focuses on spatial distribution of long-term fire patterns versus physical and anthropogenic elements of the environment that determine wildfire…”
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Introducing wildfire into forest management planning: towards a conceptual approach by Kalabokidis, Kostas D., Gatzojannis, Stylianos, Galatsidas, Spyros

“…Wildfire potential was introduced as a function in the inventory and evaluation methodology of forest resources management, through a conceptual classification…”
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Forest mapping by geoinformatics for landscape fire behaviour modelling in coastal forests, Greece by Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Kalabokidis, Kostas, Kyriakidis, Phaedon

“…This study aims at quantifying and mapping fire-related characteristics of forest structure through field inventories, statistics, remote sensing, and…”
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Identifying wildland fire ignition factors through sensitivity analysis of a neural network by Vasilakos, Christos, Kalabokidis, Kostas, Hatzopoulos, John, Matsinos, Ioannis

“…Artificial neural networks (ANNs) show a significant ability to discover patterns in data that are too obscure to go through standard statistical methods. Data…”
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Fire occurrence zones: kernel density estimation of historical wildfire ignitions at the national level, Greece by Koutsias, Nikos, Balatsos, Panagiotis, Kalabokidis, Kostas

“…The focus of our study was to create a Main Map of fire occurrence zones from historical wildland fire ignition observations at national level in Greece using…”
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AEGIS: a wildfire prevention and management information system by Kalabokidis, Kostas, Ager, Alan, Finney, Mark, Athanasis, Nikos, Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Vasilakos, Christos

“…We describe a Web-GIS wildfire prevention and management platform (AEGIS) developed as an integrated and easy-to-use decision support tool to manage wildland…”
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Porting of a wildfire risk and fire spread application into a cloud computing environment by Kalabokidis, Kostas, Athanasis, Nikolaos, Vasilakos, Christos, Palaiologou, Palaiologos

“…Effective wildfire management is an essential part of forest firefighting strategies to minimize damage to land resources and loss of human lives. Wildfire…”
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Virtual Fire: A web-based GIS platform for forest fire control by Kalabokidis, Kostas, Athanasis, Nikolaos, Gagliardi, Fabrizio, Karayiannis, Fotis, Palaiologou, Palaiologos, Parastatidis, Savas, Vasilakos, Christos

“…Α web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) platform – named Virtual Fire – for forest fire control has been developed to easily, validly and promptly…”
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