Validation of the modis burned-area products across different biomes in South Africa

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3652-3655

  Tsela, P L ^a   Van Helden, P ^a   Frost, P ^b   Wessels, K ^b   Archibald, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Burned area product; Fire; Landsat; MODIS; Omission and commission errors

Indexed keywords

FIRES; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

BURNED AREAS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT-5 (L5) THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSAT-7 (L7) ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; OMISSION AND COMMISSION ERRORS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 78650868250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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