Satellite monitoring of vegetation phenology and fire fuel conditions in Hawaiian drylands

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-21

  Elmore, Andrew J ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a   Hughes, R Flint ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hawaii; Remote sensing; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAND USE; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT; HAWAII; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; SATELLITE MONITORING; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SUBSTRATE CONDITIONS; WILDFIRE;

FIRES;

EID: 77955945038     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI160.1     Document Type: Article

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