Impact of land cover change induced by a fire event on the surface energy fluxes derived from remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 14899-14915

  Sánchez, Juan M ^a   Bisquert, Mar ^a   Rubio, Eva ^a   Caselles, Vicente ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Forest fire; Land cover change; Landsat; Surface energy fluxes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

FOREST FIRES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE MODELING; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES;

FIRES;

EID: 84950109840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71114899     Document Type: Article

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