Short-term observations of the temporal development of active fires from consecutive same-day ETM+ and ASTER imagery in the Amazon: Implications for active fire product validation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 248-253

  Csiszar, Ivan A ^a   Schroeder, Wilfred ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fires; Satellites

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; PIXELS; SATELLITES; SENSORS;

ACTIVE FIRES; BRAZILIAN AMAZONS; DETECTION PROBABILITIES; DIURNAL CYCLES; FIRE ACTIVITIES; FIRE DETECTIONS; LANDSAT-7; NON-SIMULTANEOUS; PIXEL SIZES; POTENTIAL CHANGES; REFERENCE DATUM; RESOLUTION SENSORS; SPATIAL PROGRESSIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TEMPORAL CHANGES; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; TERRA/MODIS; VALIDATION RESULTS;

FIRES;

ASTER; DETECTION METHOD; FOREST FIRE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77951115698     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2008.2011377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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