Burned area prediction with semiparametric models
Miguel Boubeta A D , María José Lombardía A , Wenceslao González-Manteiga B and Manuel Francisco Marey-Pérez C
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A Department of Mathematics, Universidade da Coruña, Campus de Elviña s/n, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain.
B Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur s/n, CP 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
C Department of Agroforestry Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Research Group PROEPLA GI-1716, Campus de Lugo s/n, CP 27002, Lugo, Spain.
D Corresponding author. Email: miguel.boubeta@udc.es
International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(6) 669-678 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF15125
Submitted: 14 July 2015 Accepted: 4 February 2015 Published: 27 April 2016
Abstract
Wildfires are one of the main causes of forest destruction, especially in Galicia (north-west Spain), where the area burned by forest fires in spring and summer is quite high. This work uses two semiparametric time-series models to describe and predict the weekly burned area in a year: autoregressive moving average (ARMA) modelling after smoothing, and smoothing after ARMA modelling. These models can be described as a sum of a parametric component modelled by an autoregressive moving average process and a non-parametric one. To estimate the non-parametric component, local linear and kernel regression, B-splines and P-splines were considered. The methodology and software were applied to a real dataset of burned area in Galicia for the period 1999–2008. The burned area in Galicia increases strongly during summer periods. Forest managers are interested in predicting the burned area to manage resources more efficiently. The two semiparametric models are analysed and compared with a purely parametric model. In terms of error, the most successful results are provided by the first semiparametric time-series model.
Additional keywords: bootstrap, forest fires, time series.
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