Identifying individual fires from satellite-derived burned area data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Archibald, S ^a   Roy, D P ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Environmental factors; Fires; Human factors; Image processing

Indexed keywords

BURNED AREAS; DATA PRODUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FIRE SIZE; FIRE SPREAD; HUMAN FACTORS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

FIRES;

EID: 77950922883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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