New GOES imager algorithms for cloud and active fire detection and fire radiative power assessment across North, South and Central America

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1876-1895

  Xu, W ^a   Wooster, M J ^a   Roberts, G ^a   Freeborn, P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

America; Cloud; Fire radiative power; GOES; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FIRES; ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS; BIOMASS-BURNING; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLOUD MASKS; DISTURBANCE FACTORS; FIRE EMISSIONS; FIRE PRODUCTS; FIRE RADIATIVE POWER; GEOSTATIONARY IMAGERS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; GLOBAL FIRE; GOES IMAGERS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGERS; INFRA RED; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; METEOSAT; NEAR-REAL TIME; OMISSION ERRORS; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; POLAR-ORBITING; PROCESSING CHAIN; REAL-TIME DATA; SMOKE EMISSION; SOURCE STRENGTH; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUMMER MONTHS; SYSTEM SCIENCE; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; VEGETATION FIRE;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPINNING (FIBERS); SYSTEMS SCIENCE; VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

FIRES;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BIOMASS BURNING; CLOUD; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GOES; INFRARED IMAGERY; LINEARITY; METEOSAT; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMOKE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TRACE GAS; WILDFIRE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77954819387     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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