Assessment of deforestation in near real time over the Brazilian amazon using multitemporal fraction images derived from terra MODIS

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-318

  Anderson, Liana O ^a   Shimabukuro, Yosio E ^a   Defries, Ruth S ^b   Morton, Douglas ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon region; Deforestation; Fraction images; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DEFORESTATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOMETERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOILS;

AMAZON REGION; FRACTION IMAGES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

DEFORESTATION; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 27744572404     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.850364     Document Type: Article

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