The LANDFIRE refresh Strategy: Updating the National dataset

Fire Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 80-101

  Nelson, Kurtis J ^a   Connot, Joel ^a   Peterson, Birgit ^a   Martin, Charley ^a  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Fire behavior modeling; Fuel mapping; LANDFIRE; MIICA; Refresh; Remote sensing; VCT; Vegetation transition; Wallow fire

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAPPING; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881565538     PISSN: 19339747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0902080     Document Type: Article

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