Analysis of forest fires in northeast China from 2003 to 2011

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8235-8251

  Tao, Jian ^a,b   Zhang, Yangjian ^a   Yuan, Xiaoyong ^a   Wang, Jingsheng ^a   Zhang, Xianzhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FIRE HAZARDS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CARBON VARIABILITY; CLIMATE WARMING; DISTURBANCE INDEX; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FOREST INVENTORY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORTHEAST CHINA; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

FIRES;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; WILDFIRE;

ALGORITHMS; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; RADIOMETRY;

CHINA;

EID: 84896263892     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.837229     Document Type: Article

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