Mapping surface fuel models using lidar and multispectral data fusion for fire behavior

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 274-285

  Mutlu, Muge ^a   Popescu, Sorin C ^a   Stripling, Curt ^b   Spencer, Tom ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuel models; Height bins; Lidar; MNF; Multispectral imagery; PCA

Indexed keywords

FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FUEL MANAGEMENT; HEIGHT BINS; MINIMUM NOISE FRACTION (MNF); MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY; SURFACE FUELS;

FIRES;

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; MODELING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36348933235     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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