An algorithm for extracting burned areas from time series of AVHRR GAC data applied at a continental scale

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 253-263

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

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Tapada da Ajuda   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BURNED AREA ALGORITHM (BAA);

ALGORITHMS; FIRES; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; BURNING; TIME SERIES;

AFRICA;

EID: 0344809976     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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