The research presented in this book is aimed at
reviewing, evaluating and improving remote sensing
techniques for vegetation water and fire risk
estimation. Coupled reflectance models, fire spread
models and meteorological data is first used to
estimate expected errors in remote sensing based
vegetation moisture retrievals and understand the
effect of such uncertainties on fire spread rate
predictions. An analysis of the characteristics of
soil and canopy reflectance is then used as a basis
for designing a vegetation water index, which is more
resistant to soil reflectance...