A remote sensing and GIS approach to study the long-term vegetation recovery of a fire-affected pine forest in southern Greece

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7712-7731

  Nioti, Foula ^a   Xystrakis, Fotios ^a   Koutsias, Nikos ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

LANDSAT; Logistic regression; Mediterranean; NDVI; Regeneration; Vegetation indices; Wildland fires

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPS; RECOVERY; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

LANDSAT; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MEDITERRANEAN; NDVI; REGENERATION; VEGETATION INDEX; WILDLAND FIRE;

REMOTE SENSING;

COEFFICIENTS; MATERIALS HANDLING; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT;

EID: 84933555919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607712     Document Type: Article

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