Analysis of the relationship between land surface temperature and wildfire severity in a series of landsat images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6136-6162

  Vlassova, Lidia ^a,b   Pérez Cabello, Fernando ^a   Mimbrero, Marcos Rodrigues ^a   Llovería, Raquel Montorio ^a   García Martín, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA ESTATAL DE QUEVEDO   (Ecuador)

^c CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DE LA DEFENSA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Land surface temperature(LST); Landsat; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FIRES; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BURN SEVERITY; DIFFERENCED NORMALIZED BURN RATIOS (DNBR); LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LANDSAT; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; VEGETATION REGENERATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FIRES;

FOREST FIRES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PINUS PINASTER; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; INDEXING; PLANTS; SATELLITES;

EID: 84904498393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6076136     Document Type: Article

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