Monitoring herbaceous biomass and water content with SPOT VEGETATION time-series to improve fire risk assessment in savanna ecosystems

Monitoring herbaceous fuel moisture cont

Monitoring herbaceous fuel moisture content with SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystems

✍ J. Verbesselt; B. Somers; S. Lhermitte; I. Jonckheere; J. van Aardt; P. Coppin 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 490 KB

This paper evaluated the capacity of SPOT VEGETATION time-series to monitor herbaceous fuel moisture content (FMC) in order to improve fire risk assessment in the savanna ecosystem of Kruger National Park in South Africa. In situ herbaceous FMC data were used to assess the Normalized Difference Vege