Introducing a new remote sensing-based model for forecasting forest fire danger conditions at a four-day scale

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2019, Pages

  Ahmed, M Razu ^a   Hassan, Quazi K ^a   Abdollahi, Masoud ^a   Gupta, Anil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

2016 Horse River wildfire; Forest fire danger condition; Human caused ignition source; Land surface temperature; Normalized difference vegetation index; Normalized difference water index

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; FIRE HAZARDS; FORECASTING; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

2016 HORSE RIVER WILDFIRE; FOREST FIRES; IGNITION SOURCE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX;

FIRES;

EID: 85072647371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11182101     Document Type: Article

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