Assessment of post-fire soil erosion risk in fire-affected watersheds using remote sensing and GIS

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 388-410

  Mallinis, G ^a   Maris, F ^a   Kalinderis, I ^b   Koutsias, N ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASTER; EROSION RATE; FOREST FIRE; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL EROSION; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 76149124511     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.46.4.388     Document Type: Article

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