Geospatial support to forest fire crisis management at the european level

GI4DM 2010 Conference - Geomatics for Crisis Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 77-82

  Giovando, C ^a   Whitmore, C ^a   Camia, A ^a   San Miguel, J ^a   Boca, R ^a   Kucera, J ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

EFFIS; Fire weather index; Forest fires; Hotspots; MODIS; Open source

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DEFORESTATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIRE HAZARDS; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LARGE DATASET; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EFFIS; FIRE WEATHER INDEX; FOREST FIRES; HOTSPOTS; MODIS; OPEN SOURCES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 78649334123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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