Assessment of post-fire vegetation recovery using fire severity and geographical data in the mediterranean region (Spain)

Environments - MDPI

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1-17

  Viana Soto, Alba ^a   Aguado, Inmaculada ^a   Martínez, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Environmental variables; GIS; Post fire regeneration; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047526314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/environments4040090     Document Type: Article

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