Detection of burned peat swamp forest in a heterogeneous tropical landscape: A case study of the Klias Peninsula, Sabah, Malaysia

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 103-116

  Phua, Mui How ^a,b   Tsuyuki, Satoshi ^b   Lee, Jung Soo ^c   Sasakawa, Hiroshi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^d Natural Environmental Conservation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burned area detection; El Ni o fires; Klias Peninsular; Remote sensing; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

FIRE PROTECTION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

BURNED AREA DETECTION; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX (NDWI); PEAT SWAMP FOREST; PENINSULA;

FORESTRY;

EL NINO; FOREST FIRE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE CONSERVATION; NDVI; PEATLAND; REMOTE SENSING; SWAMP FOREST; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

FORESTRY; MAPPING; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; KLIAS FOREST RESERVE; KLIAS PENINSULA; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 34548331837     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.01.021     Document Type: Article

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