Assessing the susceptibility of semiarid rangelands to wildfires using Terra MODIS and Landsat Thematic Mapper data

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 690-701

  Chen, Fang ^a   Weber, Keith T ^a   Anderson, Jamey ^a   Gokhal, Bhushan ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; fPAR; fuel loads; Idaho; NDVI; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

EID: 80051624282     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF10001     Document Type: Article

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