Analyzing the impacts of frequency and severity of forest fire on the recovery of disturbed forest using landsat time series and EO-1 hyperion in the Southern Brazilian Amazon

Earth Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Numata, Izaya ^a   Cochrane, Mark A ^a   Galvëo, Lãnio S ^b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Forest disturbance and recovery; Hyperspectral sensor; Landsat time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857009135     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010EI372.1     Document Type: Article

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