Detection rates of the MODIS active fire product in the United States

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2656-2664

  Hawbaker, Todd J ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Syphard, Alexandra D ^a   Zhu, Zhiliang ^b   Stewart, Susan I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; MOD14; MODIS active fire detection; MYD14; United States

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FIRE DETECTORS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; RADIOMETERS;

MOD14; MODIS ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION; MYD14;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BURNING; CLOUD COVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LANDSAT; MODIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41249084778     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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