Remote sensing of fire severity: assessing the performance of the normalized burn ratio

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

• Publication date

  2006-01-16

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/LGRS.2005.858485
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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