- Author
- Burgan, R. E. | Hartford, R. A. | Eidenshink, J. C.
- Title
- Using NDVI to Assess Departure From Average Greenness and Its Relation to fire Business.
- Coporate
- Intermountain Research Station, Ogden, UT
- Report
- USFS-INT-GTR-333, April 1996, 8 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- fire seasons | moisture
- Identifiers
- satellites; vegetation condition
- 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.