Assessing satellite-based fire data for use in the National Emissions Inventory

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Soja, Amber J ^a   Al Saadi, Jassim ^a   Giglio, Louis ^b   Randall, Dave ^c   Kittaka, Chieko ^a   Pouliot, George ^d   Kordzi, Joseph J ^d   Raffuse, Sean ^e   Pace, Thompson G ^d   Pierce, Thomas E ^d   Moore, Tom ^f   Roy, Biswadev ^d   Pierce, R Bradley ^g   Szykman, James J ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c Air Sciences Inc   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^f Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^g NOAA National Environmental Satellite   (United States)

Author keywords

air quality; biomass burning; Environmental Protection Agency; National Emissions Inventory; remote sensing; verification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; BIOMASS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VERIFICATION;

AGRICULTURAL FIRES; BIOMASS-BURNING; NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; NATIONAL EMISSIONS INVENTORIES; PARTICULATE MATTER; STATISTICAL ERRORS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL INFORMATION;

FIRES;

EID: 77957316236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3148859     Document Type: Article

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