Monthly burned area and forest fire carbon emission estimates for the Russian Federation from SPOT VGT

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Zhang, Y H ^a   Wooster, M J ^a   Tutubalina, O ^b   Perry, G L W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Burned area; Carbon; Forest fires; Russia; SPOT VGT

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

CARBON EMISSIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST FIRE; REMOTE SENSING; SPOT;

EID: 0142123189     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00141-X     Document Type: Article

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