Regional estimation of woodland moisture content by inverting Radiative Transfer Models

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 132, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-70

  Jurdao, Sara ^a   Yebra, Marta ^a,b   Guerschman, Juan Pablo ^b   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy limited; Fire danger; Fire risk; Live Fuel Moisture Content; Look Up Table; Mediterranean; MODIS; Water limited

Indexed keywords

ENERGY-LIMITED; FIRE DANGER; FIRE RISKS; LIVE FUEL MOISTURE; LOOK UP TABLE; MEDITERRANEAN; MODIS; WATER-LIMITED;

CHLOROPHYLL; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ECOLOGY; FUELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROMETERS;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOREGION; FOREST FIRE; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; NADIR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOODLAND;

SPAIN;

EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; ILEX; PINUS HALEPENSIS; QUERCUS FAGINEA; QUERCUS ILEX; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 84873517043     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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