Applicability of remote sensing-based vegetation water content in modeling lightning-caused forest fire occurrences

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Abdollahi, Masoud ^a   Dewan, Ashraf ^b   Hassan, Quazi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cumulative frequency; Fuel vegetation moisture content; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Natural subregions; Normalized difference water index; Surface reflectance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063695050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi8030143     Document Type: Article

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