High-resolution forest fire weather index computations using satellite remote sensing

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1134-1143

  Han, Kyung Soo ^a   Viau, Alain A ^a   Anctil, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING;

ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

FIRE HAZARDS;

FORECASTING METHOD; FOREST FIRE; INDEX METHOD; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

CANADA;

EID: 0042021840     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x03-014     Document Type: Article

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