Hotspot analysis of vegetation fires and intensity in the Indian region

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 224-238

  Vadrevu, Krishna Prasad ^a   Csiszar, Ivan ^b   Ellicott, Evan ^a   Giglio, Louis ^a,c   Badarinath, K V S ^d   Vermote, Eric ^a   Justice, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d National Remote Sensing Center   (India)

Author keywords

Fires; FRP; India; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

EMPIRICAL CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FIRE RADIATIVE POWER; FRP; INDIA; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV STATISTICS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS (PDFS); VEGETATION CATEGORIES;

FIRES;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; VEGETATION COVER;

FIRES; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDIA; PLANTS; SATELLITES;

INDIA;

EID: 84897109342     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2210699     Document Type: Article

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