A comparative evaluation of NOAA/AVHRR vegetation indexes for burned surface detection and mapping

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 217-226

  Pereira, José M C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Burned areas; Discrimination; Mapping; Noaa advanced very high resolution radiometer (avhrr); Vegetation indexes

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BURNED SURFACE DETECTIONS; THEMATIC MAPPERS (TM); VEGETATION INDEXES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032759717     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739156     Document Type: Article

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