Estimation of Live Fuel Moisture Content From MODIS Images for Fire Danger Assessment in Southern Gran Chaco

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 5339-5349

  Argañaraz, Juan Pablo ^a   Landi, Marcos Alejandro ^a   Bravo, Sandra Josefina ^b   Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio ^c   Scavuzzo, Carlos Marcelo ^a   Bellis, Laura Marisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fires; modeling; moisture measurement; prediction methods; risk analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; FUELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; FIELD ESTIMATIONS; FIRE SUPPRESSION; KEY INDICATOR; LIVE FUEL MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRAL INDICES;

FIRES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FOREST FIRE; FUEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODELING; MODIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GRAN CHACO;

LIGUSTRUM LUCIDUM;

EID: 84978864846     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2575366     Document Type: Article

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