Forest fire detection using the normalized multi-band drought index (NMDI) with satellite measurements

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1767-1776

  Wang, Lingli ^a   Qu, John J ^a   Hao, Xianjun ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Forest fire; Remote sensing; Satellite derived indices

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GEORGIA; GREECE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53849145300     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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