Use of NOAA-AVHRR NDVI images for the estimation of dynamic fire risk in Mediterranean areas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-197

  Maselli, Fabio ^a   Romanelli, Stefano ^b   Bottai, Lorenzo ^b   Zipoli, Gaetano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b LaMMA Consortium   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fire risk; Mediterranean areas; NOAA AVHRR NDVI images

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DEGRADATION; FIRE HAZARDS; PROBABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION;

LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGERY;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDFIRE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0141570944     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00099-3     Document Type: Article

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