AVHRR-derived fire frequency, distribution and area burned in Siberia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1939-1960

  Soja, A J ^a   Sukhinin, A I ^b   Cahoon Jr , D R ^c   Shugart, H H ^a   Stackhouse Jr , P W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^c Terra Systems Research   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FIRES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); FIRE DETECTION; FIRE STATISTICS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

RADIOMETERS;

AVHRR; BURNING; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WILDFIRE;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 1942531266     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001609725     Document Type: Article

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