Habitat in flames: How climate change will affect fire risk across koala forests by Farzin Shabani (302023)

“…</p><p><br></p><h3>Method:</h3><p dir="ltr">The Decision Tree machine learning algorithm was applied to generate a fire susceptibility index (a measure of the potential for a given area or region to experience wildfires) using a dataset of conditioning factors, namely: altitude, aspect, rainfall, distance from rivers, distance from roads, forest type, geology, koala presence and future dietary sources, land use-land cover (LULC), normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), slope, soil, temperature, and wind speed.…”