Linking ecological information and radiative transfer models to estimate fuel moisture content in the Mediterranean region of Spain: Solving the ill-posed inverse problem

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2403-2411

  Yebra, Marta ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fire risk; Live fuel moisture content; MODIS; Radiative transfer modelling

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AVERAGE ERRORS; ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION; FIELD DATA; FIRE PREVENTION; FIRE RISK; FIRE RISKS; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; ILL POSED; ILL-POSED INVERSE PROBLEM; KEY FACTORS; LIVE FUEL MOISTURE; LIVE FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODERATE RES-OLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MODIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SHRUBLANDS; SIMULATION MODEL; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE;

ECOLOGY; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RISK PERCEPTION; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

SIMULATORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIELD SURVEY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUEL; FUTURE PROSPECT; MODIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RISK FACTOR; SHRUBLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70249137928     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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