Burnt area delineation from a uni-temporal perspective based on landsat TM imagery classification using Support Vector Machines

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-80

  Petropoulos, George P ^a,b   Kontoes, Charalambos ^a   Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INFOCOSMOS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Burnt area mapping; Greek fires 2007; Landsat TM; Remote sensing; Risk EOS; Support Vector Machines

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; THEMATIC MAPPING;

GREECE;

EID: 79952735644     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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