The utility of satellite fire product accuracy information-perspectives and recommendations from the Southern Africa Fire Network

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1928-1930

  Roy, D P ^a   Trigg, S N ^b   Bhima, R ^c   Brockett, B H ^d   Dube, O P ^e   Frost, P ^f   Govender, N ^g   Landmann, T ^h   Le Roux, J ⁱ   Lepono, T ^j   Macuacua, J ^k   Mbow, C ^l   Mhwandangara, K L ^m   Mosepele, B ^c   Mutanga, O ⁿ   Neo Mahupeleng, G ^o   Norman, M ^p   Virgilo, S ^q  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Department of National Parks and Wildlife ^*  (Botswana)

^d Pilanesberg National Park   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^f DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^g KRUGER NATIONAL PARK   (South Africa)

^h MAE IAO   (Italy)

ⁱ Ministry of Environment and Tourism   (Namibia)

^j Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Project   (South Africa)

^k National Directorate of Forest and Wildlife for Maputo   (Mozambique)

^l UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^m Geospatial Solutions Zimbabwe   (Zimbabwe)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^o AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Kenya)

^p Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^q Ministry of Urban Affairs and Environment   (Angola)

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Author keywords

Fire management; Product uptake; Qualitative survey; SAFnet; Users

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FIRES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PRODUCT DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

FIRE MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT UPTAKE; QUALITATIVE SURVEY; SOUTHERN AFRICA FIRE NETWORK (SAFNET); USERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33746346720     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.871200     Document Type: Article

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