Assessment of pre- and post- Katrina fuel conditions as a component of fire potential modeling for Southern Mississippi

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 389-397

  Cooke III, William H ^a   Grala, Katarzyna ^a   Evans, David ^b   Collins, Curtis ^b,c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change analysis; Fire hazard; GIS modeling; Hurricane Katrina damage; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICS;

DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; FIRE POTENTIAL MODEL; LANDSAT IMAGERY;

FIRE HAZARDS;

FIRE; GIS; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; LANDSAT; NATURAL HAZARD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749145519     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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