Fire monitoring in savanna ecosystems using MODIS data: A case study of Kruger National Park, South Africa

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-88

  Chongo, Daniel ^a   Nagasawa, Ryota ^b   Ould Cherif Ahmed, Ahmedou ^a   Perveen, Mst Farida ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fire scar mapping; MODIS; Savanna; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247196109     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-007-0020-5     Document Type: Article

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