Mapping and Quantifying the Global Wildland-Urban Interface

Franz Schug1, Avi Bar-Masada2, Amanda Carlson1, Heather Cox1, Todd J Hawbaker3, David Helmers1, Patrick Hostert4, Dominik Kaim5, Neda Kasraee1, Katarzyna E Lewinska4, Sebastian Martinuzzi1, Miranda Mockrin6, Jose Pereira7, Kira Pfoch8, Owen Francis Price9 and Volker Radeloff1, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (2)University of Haifa, Department of Biology and Environment, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, (3)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Lakewood, United States, (4)Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Geography Department, Berlin, Germany, (5)Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Kraków, Poland, (6)USDA Forest Service, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)University of Lisbon, Forest Research Center, Lisbon, Portugal, (8)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (9)University of Wollongong, Center for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, Wollongong, Australia