Estimation and evaluation of multi-decadal fire severity patterns using Landsat sensors

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 340-349

  Parker, Brett M ^a   Lewis, Tom ^a   Srivastava, Sanjeev K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNBR; Fire history; GeoCBI; Heath; Sclerophyll vegetation; Temporal change

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

DNBR; FIRE HISTORY; GEOCBI; HEATH; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

FIRES;

BARK; DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIRE HISTORY; HEATHLAND; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EUCALYPTUS; MELALEUCA QUINQUENERVIA;

EID: 84943567743     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.014     Document Type: Article

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