Monitoring post-fire vegetation recovery in the Mediterranean using SPOT and ERS imagery

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 631-642

  Polychronaki, A ^a   Gitas, I Z ^a   Minchella, A ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mediterranean pine forests; object based classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905449636     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF12058     Document Type: Article

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