Evaluation of pre/post-fire differenced spectral indices for assessing burn severity in a mediterranean environment with landsat thematic mapper

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3521-3537

  Veraverbeke, Sander ^a,b   Lhermitte, Stefaan ^c   Verstraeten, Willem W ^d   Goossens, R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ABSOLUTE INDICES; COMPOSITE BURN INDICES; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE MOISTURE INDICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REMOTELY SENSED INDICES; VEGETATION STATE;

REMOTE SENSING;

CORRELATION; FOREST FIRE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 79960074594     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161003752430     Document Type: Article

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