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I - PRE-FIRE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
son for the period between 2002 and 2008 in combination with the information
on existing touristic infrastructure, namely hiking trails, mountain
huts and cable cars. Several data sources were used to fix the location of
cable cars, touristic huts, hiking trails and forest fires in a map with ArcGIS.
Additionally we created maps for the mean number of overnight stays per
district and a map showing the share of forested area (km 2 ) on district level
within the district boundaries.
Figure 1 - Touristic infrastructure of Austria with forest fires (Statistik Austria).
Figure 2 - Mean overnight stays of Austria (district level) 2002-2008 (Statistik Austria).