On the use of fire radiative power, area, and temperature estimates to characterize biomass burning via moderate to coarse spatial resolution remote sensing data in the Brazilian Amazon

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Schroeder, Wilfrid ^a   Csiszar, Ivan ^b   Giglio, Louis ^c   Schmidt, Christopher C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

ACTIVE FIRES; ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; AQUA MODIS; BACKGROUND CHARACTERIZATION; BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; BIOMASS DENSITY; BIOMASS-BURNING; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA; DETECTION LIMITS; FIRE AREAS; FIRE RADIATIVE POWER; FIRE TEMPERATURES; IN-SITU; LANDSAT; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REFERENCE DATA; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SMALL FIRE; SPACE-BORNE INSTRUMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; SUB PIXELS; THERMAL ANOMALIES; TREE COVER; VEGETATION FIRE;

FIRES;

ASTER; BIOMASS BURNING; GOES; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; RADIATIVE FORCING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WILDFIRE;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 78649382403     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013769     Document Type: Article

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