The temporal dimension of differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) fire/burn severity studies: The case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greece

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2548-2563

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio; Fire; Fire severity; LANDSAT; MODIS; Peloponnese

Indexed keywords

BURN SEVERITY; DIFFERENCED NORMALIZED BURN RATIO; FIRE SEVERITY; LANDSAT; MODIS; PELOPONNESE;

ECOSYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

FIRES;

DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HERB; LANDSAT; MODIS; PIXEL; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

GREECE; PELOPONNESE;

EID: 77956174559     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.029     Document Type: Article

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