Monitoring herbaceous fuel moisture content with SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystems

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 357-368

  Verbesselt, J ^a   Somers, B ^a   Lhermitte, S ^a   Jonckheere, I ^a   van Aardt, J ^b   Coppin, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fire risk; Fuel moisture content; Improved Vegetation Dryness Index (IVDI); Live and dead fuel; SPOT VEGETATION

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; RISK ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

DEAD FUEL; FIRE RISK; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; IMPROVED VEGETATION DRYNESS INDEX (IVDI);

MOISTURE;

BIOFUEL; BIOMONITORING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INDEX METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; NATURAL HAZARD; NDVI; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SAVANNA; SPOT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 34247862035     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.11.019     Document Type: Article

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