Controls on variations in MODIS fire radiative power in Alaskan boreal forests: Implications for fire severity conditions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-181

  Barrett, Kirsten ^a   Kasischke, Eric S ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal; Fire; Fire intensity; Fire radiative power; Fire severity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FIRES; BOREAL; BOREAL FORESTS; BURNED AREAS; CONIFEROUS STANDS; CONIFEROUS VEGETATION; ECOLOGICAL EFFECT; FIRE ACTIVITY; FIRE INTENSITY; FIRE PRONE; FIRE RADIATIVE POWER; FIRE RESISTANT; FIRE SEVERITY; FIRE SPREAD; HIGHER LATITUDES; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; LOWER AVERAGE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; RESIDUAL PIXEL; SEASONAL PERIODS; SEASONALITY; SMALL FIRE; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TIME-SCALES; TO EFFECT; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION PATTERN; VEGETATION TYPE;

FORESTRY; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOMINANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FRACTIONATION; LATITUDE; MODIS; PIXEL; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

FIRES; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; SATELLITES;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871374878     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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