Compositing criteria for burned area assessment using multitemporal low resolution satellite data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-49

  Barbosa, Paulo Marinho ^a   Pereira, José Miguel Cardoso ^b   Grégoire, Jean Marie ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND USE; MAPPING; MONITORING; SATELLITES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SATELLITE DATA;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AVHRR; BURNING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 0032108627     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00016-9     Document Type: Article

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