Remote Sensing-Based Assessment of Fire Danger Conditions Over Boreal Forest

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 992-999

  Akther, M Shammi ^a   Hassan, Quazi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

MODIS; normalized multiband drought index; surface temperature; temperature vegetation wetness index

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; BOREAL FORESTS; DROUGHT INDICES; FIRE DANGER; FOREST FIRES; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; INSTANTANEOUS VALUE; INTEGRAL PART; MODIS; MULTIBAND; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION INDEX;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; PLANTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 83655198298     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2165940     Document Type: Article

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