Design of a susceptibility index for fire risk monitoring

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 140-144

  Dasgupta, Swarvanu ^a,b   Qu, John Jianhe ^a,b,c   Hao, Xianjun ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire susceptibility index (FSI); Preignition heat energy; Wildfire risk

Indexed keywords

FIRE RISK MONITORING; FIRE SUSCEPTIBILITY INDEX (FSI); PREIGNITION HEAT ENERGY; WILDFIRE RISKS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONDITION MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FIRES;

EID: 31144437912     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.858484     Document Type: Article

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