An advanced forest fire danger forecasting system: Integration of remote sensing and historical sources of ignition data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Abdollahi, Masoud ^a   Islam, Tanvir ^b   Gupta, Anil ^a,c   Hassan, Quazi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human caused static fire danger map; Lightning caused static fire danger map; Normalized difference vegetation index; Normalized difference water index; Precipitable water; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORECASTING; LIGHTNING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK PERCEPTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

FIRE DANGER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

FIRES;

EID: 85048994208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10060923     Document Type: Article

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