Evaluation of the influence of local fuel homogeneity on fire hazard through Landsat-5 TM texture measures

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 853-864

  Vega García, Cristina ^a   Tatay Nieto, Jaime ^a,b   Blanco, Ricardo ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS;

KERNEL SIZE; LOGIT MODELS; PIXEL LEVEL; SPECTRAL BAND; TEXTURE MEASUREMENT; TEXTURE MEASURES; TIME-PERIODS; WINDOW SIZE;

FIRE HAZARDS;

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUEL; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOMOGENEITY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 82055195270     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.76.7.853     Document Type: Review

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