Development of a new daily-scale forest fire danger forecasting system using remote sensing data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2431-2448

  Chowdhury, Ehsan H ^a   Hassan, Quazi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire spot; Normalized difference vegetation index; Normalized multiband drought index; Operational perspective; Precipitable water; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

DROUGHT INDICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

FORECASTING;

CANADA; DROUGHT; FORECASTS; FOREST FIRES; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84926343948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302431     Document Type: Article

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