Mapping the annual area burned in the wetlands of the Okavango panhandle using a hierarchical classification approach

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-268

  Cassidy, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Botswana; Burned areas; Fire scars; Landsat; Marshy wetlands; Okavango; Remote sensing; Thermal band

Indexed keywords

FIRE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LANDSAT; MAPPING; MARSH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLAND;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; NAMIBIA; OKAVANGO; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34347351968     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-006-9026-2     Document Type: Article

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