Using MODIS-NDVI for the modeling of post-wildfire vegetation response as a function of environmental conditions and pre-fire restoration treatments

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 598-621

  Leon, Jose Raul Romo ^a   van Leeuwen, Willem J D ^a   Casady, Grant M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Experiment; Remote sensing; Restoration; Statistical models; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; AVERAGE POTENTIAL; CONTROL AREA; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FIRE SEVERITY; INTERANNUAL; KEY PROCESS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEW MEXICO; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX TIME SERIES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; POST-FIRE; RESTORATION PRACTICES; RESTORATION TREATMENTS; STATISTICAL MODELS; SUMMER MONSOON; VEGETATION RESPONSE; VEGETATION TYPE; WILDFIRE;

CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

EID: 84857965995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4030598     Document Type: Article

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