Spectral analysis of fire severity in north Australian tropical savannas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 136, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-65

  Edwards, Andrew C ^a,b,c   Maier, Stefan W ^b   Hutley, Lindsay B ^b   Williams, Richard J ^d   Russell Smith, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a Bushfires NT   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

MODIS; NBR CBI

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; GLOBAL APPLICATIONS; MODIS; NBR/CBI; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; OBSERVATION FREQUENCIES; PARSIMONIOUS MODELS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED BANDS;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; PHOTOMAPPING; RADIOMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

DATA ACQUISITION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOLIAGE; MAPPING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SAVANNA; SENSOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84878166513     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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