Use of satellite data to study the impact of forest fires over the northeast region of India

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 485-489

  Badarinath, K V S ^a   Kharol, Shailesh Kumar ^a   Chand, T R Kiran ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol index (AI); Aerosol optical depth (AOD); Biomass burning; Climate change; Forest fires; Northeast India

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY;

AEROSOL INDEX (AI); AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH (AOD); BIOMASS BURNING; NORTHEAST INDIA;

SATELLITES;

BIOMASS; CLIMATES; DATA; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; SATELLITES;

EID: 34547196237     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.896738     Document Type: Article

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