
%0 Journal Article
%A Chou, YH 
%T Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis and Weighting Functions in the Distribution of Wildland Fires
%J International Journal of Wildland Fire
%D 1992/12/01
%V 2
%N 4
%P 169-176
%K Spatial autocorrelation; Weighting functions; Wildland fires
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9920169
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WF9920169 
%X Spatial autocorrelation and spatial weighting functions are examined in relation to the distribution of wildland fires. Records of fire activity and vegetation for the Idyllwild 15-minute quadrangle of the San Jacinto Mountains, San Bernardino National Forest, California, are processed in a geographic information system to generate six spatial weighting functions: contiguity, area, boundary length, distance, area-distance combined, and boundary-distance combined. The weighted coefficients and significance tests show that contiguity best represents the spatial relationship in the distribution of wildand fires. Distance introduces a scaling effect which enhances the magnitude of Moran's I coefficient of spatial autocorrelation. 
