Remote sensing of fuel moisture content from ratios of narrow-band vegetation water and dry-matter indices

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 129, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-110

  Wang, Lingli ^a   Hunt, E Raymond ^b   Qu, John J ^a   Hao, Xianjun ^a   Daughtry, Craig S T ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuel moisture content; Normalized Difference Infrared Index; Normalized Dry Matter Index; PROSPECT; SAIL; Spectral reflectance

Indexed keywords

DRY MATTERS; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; INFRARED INDICES; PROSPECT; SAIL; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUELS; POLYNOMIALS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

CANOPY; DECIDUOUS TREE; MAIZE; MOISTURE CONTENT; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; WATER CONTENT; WILDFIRE;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; QUERCUS ALBA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84870191428     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.027     Document Type: Article

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