Burned-area mapping of the serengeti-mara region using MODIS reflectance data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 312-316

  Dempewolf, J ^a   Trigg, S ^a   DeFries, R S ^a   Eby, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burned area; Remote sensing; Savanna

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

BURNED AREA; BURNED AREA INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); SAVANNA;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

EID: 34247364684     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.894140     Document Type: Article

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