Assessment of post-fire changes in land surface temperature and surface albedo, and their relation with fireburn severity using multitemporal MODIS imagery

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-256

  Veraverbeke, Sander ^a,b   Verstraeten, Willem W ^c,d   Lhermitte, Stefaan ^c,e   Van De Kerchove, Ruben ^a   Goossens, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

climate; NDVI; remote sensing; satellite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861126933     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF10075     Document Type: Article

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