Fire Disturbance in Tropical Forests of Myanmar-Analysis Using MODIS Satellite Datasets

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

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2273-2281

  Biswas, Sumalika ^a   Lasko, Kristofer D ^a   Vadrevu, Krishna Prasad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; gross primary productivity (GPP); moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); Myanmar; tropics; vegetation disturbance

Indexed keywords

FIRES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVERGREEN FORESTS; FIRE DISTURBANCE; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MYANMARS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; VEGETATION GREENNESS;

FORESTRY;

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY; TROPICS;

MYANMAR;

EID: 85027949134     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2423681     Document Type: Article

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