Characterization of the spatio-temporal patterns of global fire activity using satellite imagery for the period April 1992 to March 1993

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-69

  Dwyer, Edward ^a,d   Pereira, José M C ^b   Grégoire, Jean Marie ^a   Dacamara, Carlos C ^c,e  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d SARMAP SA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical orthogonal functions; Global fire patterns; Remote sensing of fire; Vegetation fire

Indexed keywords

FIRE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033873155     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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