Analysis of seven-year moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer vegetation water indices for drought and fire activity assessment over Georgia of the United States

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Lingli ^a   Qu, John J ^a   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b   Hao, Xianjun ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

drought index; ire activity; MODIS; vegetation drought; vegetation water indices

Indexed keywords

FIRES; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION;

DROUGHT INDICES; DROUGHT INTENSITIES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NORMALIZED CALCULATIONS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; WATER INDEX;

DROUGHT;

EID: 77957308122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3256138     Document Type: Article

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