Addressing the spatiotemporal sampling design of MODIS to provide estimates of the fire radiative energy emitted from Africa

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 475-489

  Freeborn, Patrick H ^a   Wooster, Martin J ^a   Roberts, Gareth ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Bow tie effect; Climate modeling grid; Fire radiative power; MODIS

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS-BURNING; BOWTIE EFFECTS; CLIMATE MODELING; FIRE RADIATIVE POWER; MODIS;

BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; FIRES; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GRANULATION;

RADIOMETERS;

BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY FLUX; LAND COVER; MODIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RESOLUTION; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SEVIRI; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

EID: 78650879827     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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