Operational perspective of remote sensing-based forest fire danger forecasting systems

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages 224-236

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire occurrence; Meteorological environmental variables; Optical thermal radar imaging; Spatial dynamics; System development

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; INTERPOLATION; MONITORING; WIND;

FIRE OCCURRENCES; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; METEOROLOGICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; SPATIAL DYNAMICS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

FIRES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR;

EID: 84939414873     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.03.011     Document Type: Short Survey

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