Burn severity estimation from remotely sensed data: Performance of simulation versus empirical models

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 422-435

  De Santis, Angela ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burn Severity; CBI; Forest Fires; Kuusk Model; Landsat TM; NBR; RTM Inversion; Spectral Indices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

BURN SEVERITY; FOREST FIRES; KUUSK MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS (RTM);

RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST FIRE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INDEX METHOD; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODEL VALIDATION; NATURAL HAZARD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34247896953     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.11.022     Document Type: Article

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