Short-term assessment of burn severity using the inversion of PROSPECT and GeoSail models

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 126-136

  De Santis, Angela ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a   Vaughan, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burn Severity; Forest fires; GeoCBI; GeoSail; Landsat TM; Local sensitivity analysis; PROSPECT; RTM inversion; SPOT HRV

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SPACE OPTICS;

BURN SEVERITY; FOREST FIRES; GEOCBI; GEOSAIL; LANDSAT TM; LOCAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PROSPECT; RTM INVERSION; SPOT-HRV;

FIRES;

BURNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST FIRE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMBUSTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; EVALUATION; FOREST FIRES; INVERSION; MODELS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

EID: 56949106183     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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