Characterizing vegetation fire dynamics in Brazil through multisatellite data: Common trends and practical issues

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-26

  Schroeder, Wilfrid ^a   Morisette, Jeffrey T ^b   Csiszar, Ivan ^a   Giglio, Louis ^c   Morton, Douglas ^a   Justice, Christopher O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; Fire monitoring; Vegetation fire

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; ROADS AND STREETS; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; FIRE MONITORING; FIRE OCCURRENCES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SATELLITE FIRE DETECTION; VEGETATION FIRE;

FIRES;

EID: 77955979316     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI120.1     Document Type: Article

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