The distribution in time and space of savanna fires in Burkina Faso as determined from NOAA AVHRR data

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn , Issue 97, 1997, Pages 86-97

  Nielsen, Thomas Theis ^a   Rasmussen, Kjeld ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Earth Observation; Fire; Fire regime; NOAA AVHRR; Savanna fires

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FIRE REGIME; HAZARD MONITORING; NATURAL HAZARD; NOAA; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

BURKINA FASO;

EID: 0031433807     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.1997.10649395     Document Type: Article

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