Monitoring the effects of forest restoration treatments on post-fire vegetation recovery with MODIS multitemporal data

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 2017-2042

  Van Leeuwen, Willem J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire severity; Fuel reduction treatments; LANDSAT; MODIS; Phenology; Vegetation recovery

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; FUELS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; RECOVERY; RESTORATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION); VEGETATION;

FIRE SEVERITY; FUEL REDUCTION TREATMENT; LANDSAT; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

FIRES;

EID: 41549106793     PISSN: 14243210     EISSN: 14248220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8032017     Document Type: Article

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