FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT ESTIMATION USING SATELLITE DATA

Fuel Moisture Content (FMC) is an important parameter in determining forest fire risk and forest fire behavior. It will cost many peoples, large money and much time if the FMC is measured directly in field work. Satellite data has the characters, such as covering broad area, and high temporal resolution. In this paper, Normal Difference Water Index (NDWI), which has been calculated by using SWIR and Near Infrared (NIR) of ENVISAT-AATSR (Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer, AATSR) are used to retrieve FMC in our experiment region. At the same times, NDWI also has been estimated by using MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiaometer (MODIS) measurements. The results show that the value of FMC by using the SWIR and NIR have the similar trend to the locate observation. This method can provide efficiently fuel moisture spatial distribution in forest fire risk prediction