Monitoring herbaceous biomass and water content with SPOT VEGETATION time-series to improve fire risk assessment in savanna ecosystems

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 399-414

  Verbesselt, J ^a   Somers, B ^a   Van Aardt, J ^a   Jonckheere, I ^a   Coppin, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomass; Fire risk assessment; SPOT VEGETATION; Time series; Vegetation water content

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DECREMENT (ARND); FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT; SPOT VEGETATION; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; WATER CONTENT;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33645113650     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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