Using NDVI to assess departure from average greenness and its relation to fire business

Robert E. Burgan; Roberta A. Hartford; Jeffery C. Eidenshink

doi:10.2737/INT-GTR-333

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Using NDVI to assess departure from average greenness and its relation to fire business

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Authors:

Robert E. Burgan, Roberta A. Hartford, Jeffery C. Eidenshink

Year:

1996

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/INT-GTR-333

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-333. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 8 p.

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Abstract

A new satellite-derived vegetation greenness map, departure from average, is designed to compare current-year vegetation greenness with average greenness for the same time of year. Live-fuel condition as portrayed on this map, and the calculated 1,000-hour fuel moistures, are compared to fire occurrence and area burned in Montana and Idaho during the 1993 and 1994 fire seasons.

Keywords

satellites, fuels, vegetation condition, moisture, fire

Citation

Burgan, Robert E.; Hartford, Roberta A.; Eidenshink, Jeffery C. 1996. Using NDVI to assess departure from average greenness and its relation to fire business. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-333. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 8 p.