Estimation of Grassland Live Fuel Moisture Content from Ratio of Canopy Water Content and Foliage Dry Biomass

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1903-1907

  Quan, Xingwen ^a   He, Binbin ^a   Li, Xing ^a   Tang, Zhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy water content (CWC); Data assimilation; Foliage dry biomass (FDB); Live fuel moisture content (LFMC); PROSAIL model

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FIRES; FUELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

CANOPY WATER CONTENTS; CONTROL VARIABLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DRY BIOMASS; LIVE FUEL MOISTURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SOIL WATER ATMOSPHERE PLANTS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 85027947793     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2437391     Document Type: Article

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