Monitoring forest fire danger with remote sensing

Natural Hazards

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 343-359

  Leblon, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERS 1; Fire danger; Forest fire; Fuel moisture; NOAA AVHRR; Optical; Radar; RADARSAT 1; SAR; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 20044391000     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-1796-3     Document Type: Review

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