Mapping wildfire danger at regional scale with an index model integrating coarse spatial resolution remote sensing data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Chéret, Véronique ^a   Denux, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a ESA Purpan   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; MODELING; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPOT; WILDFIRE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 34548387554     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JG000125     Document Type: Article

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