Monitoring live fuel moisture using soil moisture and remote sensing proxies

Fire Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 71-87

  Qi, Yi ^a   Dennison, Philip E ^a   Spencer, Jessica ^a   Riaño, David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIC Instituto de Economia Geografia y Demografia IEGD   (Spain)

Author keywords

Live fuel moisture; MODIS; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST FIRE; FUEL; MODIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84877337805     PISSN: 19339747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0803071     Document Type: Article

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