Use of remote sensing-derived variables in developing a forest fire danger forecasting system

Natural Hazards

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 321-334

  Chowdhury, Ehsan H ^a   Hassan, Quazi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire spot; MODIS; Normalized difference vegetation index; Normalized multiband drought index; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FORECASTING METHOD; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; FORT MCMURRAY;

EID: 84877068134     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0564-7     Document Type: Article

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