R-INLA used to accurately predict forest fires in Portugal
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Professors Maria Antónia da Conceição Abrantes Amaral Turkman and
Kamil Feridum Turkman, from the University of Lisbon used the
INLA methodology and specifically SPDE's (using R-INLA), to do the official
risk assessment for forest fire prediction in Portugal for 2018.
The prediction s turned out to be very accurate and a new study is on the way for updating
the predictions for 2020 with more detailed data.
