The photoload sampling technique: Estimating surface fuel loadings from downward-looking photographs of synthetic fuelbeds

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report RMRS-GTR

Volumn , Issue 190 RMRS-GTR, 2007, Pages 1-46

  Keane, Robert E ^a   Dickinson, Laura J ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuel load loading; Fuel sampling; Fuelbeds; Fuels; Photographs; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUEL; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; FUELWOOD; PHOTOGRAPH; SAMPLING;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247371456     PISSN: 02775786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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