Generation of long time series of burn area maps of the boreal forest from NOAA-AVHRR composite data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2381-2396

  Chuvieco, Emilio ^a   Englefield, Peter ^b   Trishchenko, Alexander P ^c   Luo, Yi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Boreal forest; Burned areas; Global change; Multitemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FIRES; INFRARED RADIATION;

BURNED AREAS; GLOBAL CHANGE; MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; BOREAL FOREST; BURNING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST COVER; GLOBAL CHANGE; NOAA SATELLITE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ALGORITHMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; INFRARED RADIATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 41249092262     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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