Combining AVHRR imagery with CORINE Land Cover data to observe forest fires and to assess their consequences

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 263-274

  Sifakis, N ^a   Paronis, D ^a   Keramitsoglou, I ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Burnt area; CORINE Land Cover; Disturbance mapping; Forest fire; Low resolution satellite data

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; FOREST FIRE; LAND COVER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 9144237620     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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