Development and analysis of a 12-year daily 1-km forest fire dataset across North America from NOAA/AVHRR data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-208

  Pu, Ruiliang ^a,b   Li, Zhanqing ^a   Gong, Peng ^c   Csiszar, Ivan ^a   Fraser, Robert ^d   Hao, Wei Min ^e   Kondragunta, Shobha ^f   Weng, Fuzhong ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF REMOTE SENSING SCIENCE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^f OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Burned area mapping; Forest fires; NOAA AVHRR data; North America

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; NORTH AMERICA; RADIOMETERS;

BOREAL FORESTS; BURNED AREA MAPPING; CARBON CYCLE; NOAA/AVHRR DATA;

FIRE HAZARDS;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; FOREST FIRE; MAPPING; NOAA SATELLITE;

DATA PROCESSING; FOREST FIRES; NORTH AMERICA; RADIOMETRY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247180169     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.02.027     Document Type: Article

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