Abstract

AVILA-FLORES, D. Y.; POMPA-GARCIA, M.  and  VARGAS-PEREZ, E.. Spatial analysis of forest fire occurrence in the state of Durango. Rev. Chapingo ser. cienc. for. ambient [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.2, pp.253-260. ISSN 2007-4018.  https://doi.org/10.5154/r.rchscfa.2009.08.028.

An exploratory analysis was carried out of the spatial distribution pattern of forest fires for the state of Durango, having as a hypothesis that the fires have a nonrandom spatial pattern. Weekly fire reports from CONAFOR (National Forestry Commission) for a five-year period were analyzed using Moran's coefficient. A graphical analysis was developed with the scatterplot diagram and local indicator of spatial association. The results show a high spatial correlation between areas with fire history, where Moran's statistic captures 98.3% of the global structure of longitudinal and altitudinal association.

Keywords : Autocorrelation; Moran's Index; fire.

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