Fire detection and fire characterization over Africa using meteosat SEVIRI

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1200-1218

  Roberts, Gareth J ^a   Wooster, Martin J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon; Fires; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED IMAGING; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REMOTE SENSING;

FIRE DETECTION; FREQUENCY MAGNITUDE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL CYCLES;

FIRES;

EID: 41549138451     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.915751     Document Type: Article

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