Detecting unknown coal fires: Synergy of automated coal fire risk area delineation and improved thermal anomaly extraction

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 4561-4585

  Kuenzer, Claudia ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Li, J ^b   Voigt, S ^c   Mehl, H ^c   Wagner, W ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COAL; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; TEMPERATURE;

COAL FIRE; LAND COVER EXTRACTION; SIMPLE THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES; SUB-WINDOW HISTOGRAMS; THERMAL ANOMALIES;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; EXTRACTION METHOD; FIRE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34748822305     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160701250432     Document Type: Article

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