Assessment of forest fire danger conditions in southern Spain from NOAA images and meteorological indices

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1653-1668

  Aguado, I ^a   Chuvieco, E ^a   Martin P ^b   Salas, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

FIRE DANGER;

FIRE HAZARDS;

DROUGHT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; HAZARD; METEOROLOGY; NOAA SATELLITE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; FOREST FIRES; METEOROLOGY;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 0038033071     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160210144688     Document Type: Article

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