Wildfire potential mapping over the State of Mississippi: A land surface modeling approach

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 492-509

  Cooke, William ^a   Mostovoy, Georgy ^a   Anantharaj, Valentine ^b   Jolly, W ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND SURFACE; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864612319     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.49.4.492     Document Type: Article

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