Quantifying spatio-temporal differences between fire shapes: Estimating fire travel paths for the improvement of dynamic spread models

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was undertaken as part of the project 'Fire impact and risk evaluation decision support tool' which was funded by Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. We gratefully acknowledge the support and cooperation of the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. We would like to recognise the contribution of Dr. Peter Taylor, whose input substantially improved this manuscript. We would also like to acknowledge the voluntary contribution of the developers of the R statistical project, in particular the packages sp, vegan and plotrix. Lastly we thank our anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments contributed to the improvement of this work.