Low soil moisture and high temperatures as indicators for forest fire occurrence and extent across the Iberian Peninsula

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2015-November, Issue , 2015, Pages 3325-3328

  Chaparro, David ^a   Vall Llossera, Merce ^a   Piles, Maria ^a   Camps, Adriano ^a   Rudiger, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fires; risk indices; Skin Temperature; SMOS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962554923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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