Illumination effects on the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio's optimality for assessing fire severity

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-70

  Veraverbeke, S ^a   Verstraeten, W W ^b   Lhermitte, S ^c   Goossens, R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

C Correction; Fire severity; Illumination effect; Index optimality; Landsat Thematic Mapper; Normalized Burn Ratio; Peloponnese; Topographic correction

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PIXEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

GREECE; PELOPONNESE;

EID: 77955589270     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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