The GBA2000 initiative: Developing a global burnt area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1369-1376

  Gregoire J M ^a   Tansey, K ^a   Silva, J M N ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; VEGETATION;

TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS BURNING; DATABASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0344951132     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116021000044850     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. ACHARD. F., EVA, H., GLINNI. A., MAYAUX. P., RICHARDS. R., and STIBIG. H. J., 1998. Identification of deforestation hot spot areas in the humid tropics. Publication of the European Commission, EUR 18079 EN, Luxembourg.
2. ANDREAE, M. O., 1991, Biomass burning: Its history, use and distribution and its impact on environmental quality and global climate. In Global Biomass Burning. Atmospheric, Climatic and Biospheric Implications, edited by J. S. Levine (Cambrider, Mass.: MIT Press), pp 3-21.
3. BARBOSA. P. M., STROPPIANA. D., and GRÉGOIRE. J.-M., 1999, An assessment of vegetation fire in Africa (1981-1991): burned areas, burned biomass, and atmospheric emissions. Global Geochemical Cycles, 13, 933-950.
4. BOSCHETTI. L., FLASSE. S., JACQUES DE DIXMUDE. A., and TRIGG. S., 2002, A multitemporal change-detection algorithm for the monitoring of burnt areas with SPOT-VEGETATION data. In Analysis of Multi-temporal Remoste Sensing Images, edited by L. Bruzzone and P. Smits (Singapore: World Scientific), in press.
5. u Conferenza Nazionale Asita, La qualità nell'Informazione Geografica, 9-12 october 2001, Rimini, Italy, pp. 293-298.
6. BRIVIO. P. A., MAGGI. M., BINAGHI. E., GALLO. I., and GREGOIRE. J.-M., 2002, Exploiting spatial and temporal information for extracting burned areas from time series of SPOT-VGT data. In Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, edited by L. Bruzzone and P. Smits (Singapore: World Scientific), in press.
7. CRUTZEN. P. J., and ANDREAE. M. O., 1990, Biomass burning in the tropics: Impact on atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Science, 250, 1669-1678.
8. DWYER. E., and PEREIRA. J. GREGOIRE. J.-M. DACAMARA. C. C., 1999, Characterization of the spatio-temporal patterns of global fire activity using satellite imagery for the period April 1992 to March 1993. Journal of Biogeography, 27, 57-69.
9. ERSHOV. D. V., and NOVIK. V. P., 2001, Features of burnt area mapping in forest of Siberia using SPOT S1-VGT data. GOFC Fire Satellite Product Validation Workshop, 9 July 2001 (Lisbon: Gulbenkian Foundation).
10. ESA/ESRIN. 2002, http://shark1.esrin.esa.it.
11. FRASER. R., H., FERNANDES. R., and LATIFOVIC. R., 2002, Multi-temporal mapping of burned forest over Canada using satellite-based change metrics. Geocarto International, submitted.
12. HANSEN. M. C., DEFRIES. R. S., TOWNSHEND. J. R. G., and SOHLBERG, R., 2000, Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 21, 1331-1364.
13. 2 and other trace gases to the atomosphere from fires in the tropics, based on the FAO statistics for the period 1975-1980. In Fire in the Tropical Biota: Ecosystem Processes and Global Challenges, edited by J. G. Goldammer (New York: Springer Verlag), pp. 440-462.
14. HAO. W., M., and LIU. M. -H., 1994, Spatial and temporal distribution of tropical biomass burning. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 8, 495-503.
15. HOUGHTON. J. T., MEIRA FILIIO. L. G., BRUCE. J., LEE. H., CALLANDER. B. A., HAITES. E., HARRIS, N., and MASKELL, K., 1995, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
16. HOUGHTON, J. T., MEIRA FILHO, L. G., LIM. B., TRÉANTON. K., MAMATY. I., BONDUKI. Y., GRIGGS. D. J., and CALLANDER. B. A. (eds.), 1997, IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, vol. 2, Workbook (IPCC, OECD, IEA: Bracknell. UK).
17. SEILER. W., and CRUTZEN. P. J., 1980, Estimates of gross and net fluxes of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere from biomass burning. Climate Change, 2, 207-247.
18. SILVA. J., GREGOIRE. J.-M., and PEREIRA. J., 2001, Multitemporal burned area mapping in Southeastern Africa using SPOT-VEGETATION data. GOFC Fire Satellite Product Validation Workshop. 9 July 2001 (Lisbon: Gulbenkian Foundation).
19. STROPPIANA. D., and GRÉGOIRE. J.-M., 2002, Using temporal change of the land cover spectral signal to improve burnt area mapping. In Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, edited by L. Bruzzone and P. Smits (Singapore: World Scientific), pp. 209-216.