Fire danger assessment with remote sensing: A case study in Northern China

Natural Hazards

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 819-834

  Wang, Litao ^a   Zhou, Yi ^a   Zhou, Weiqi ^b   Wang, Shixing ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF REMOTE SENSING SCIENCE   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Fire danger assessment; Northern China; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

CHINA;

EID: 84870779683     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0391-2     Document Type: Article

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