Defining a fire year for reporting and analysis of global interannual fire variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Boschetti, Luigi ^a   Roy, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; FIRE; MODIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 63149178689     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JG000686     Document Type: Article

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