The influence of regional surface soil moisture anomalies on forest fires in Siberia observed from satellites

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bartsch, A ^a   Balzter, H ^b   George, C ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest fires; Radar; Remote sensing; Scatterometer; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PERMAFROST; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

EARTH RESOURCES SATELLITES; FIRE-AFFECTED AREAS; FOREST FIRES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

FIRES;

EID: 70749132289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045021     Document Type: Article

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