Interactions between climate, land use and vegetation fire occurrences in El Salvador

Atmosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Armenteras, Dolors ^a   Gibbes, Cerian ^b   Vivacqua, Carla A ^c   Espinosa, Juan Sebastián ^a   Duleba, Wania ^d   Goncalves, Fabio ^d   Castro, Christopher ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

MODIS; NDVI; Rainfall; Satellite active fires; Spatial pattern; Temporal

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

ACTIVE FIRES; MODIS; NDVI; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL;

FIRES;

DECISION MAKING; FOREST FIRE; LAND USE CHANGE; MODIS; NDVI; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRMM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATACAMA; CHILE; EL SALVADOR [ATACAMA];

EID: 84960111670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos7020026     Document Type: Article

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