C-band SAR backscatter evaluation of 2008 gallipoli forest fire

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1091-1095

  Kurum, Mehmet ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Backscatter; burn severity; forest fire; Landsat; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; RADAR; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BURN SEVERITY; FIRE MONITORING; FOREST CANOPIES; FOREST FIRES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LANDSAT; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL EVALUATION;

FIRES;

EVALUATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRES; GEOMETRY; MONITORING; WEATHER;

EID: 85027945807     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2382716     Document Type: Article

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