Comparison of burned area estimates derived from SPOT-VEGETATION and Landsat ETM+ data in Africa: Influence of spatial pattern and vegetation type

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 188-201

  Silva, João M N ^a   Sá, Ana C L ^a   Pereira, José M C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Burned area mapping; Classification trees; Landsat ETM+; Spatial patterns; SPOT VEGETATION

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; IMAGE SENSORS; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GRASSLANDS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WOODLANDS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BURNING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPOT;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; MAPPING; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 20444375159     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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