Maps of fire occurrence - spatially explicit reconstruction of recent fire history using satellite remote sensing

Journal of Maps

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 499-506

  Pleniou, Magdalini ^a   Xystrakis, Fotios ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^a   Koutsias, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fire frequency; Fire history reconstruction; Fire regime; Fire return interval; Fire scar mapping; Greece; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877004900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17445647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2012.743866     Document Type: Article

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