Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Fires Detected by MODIS Data in Northern Iran From 2001 to 2008

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 216-225

  Ardakani, Ali S ^a   Valadan Zoej, Mohammad J ^a   Mohammadzadeh, Ali ^a   Mansourian, Ali ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Forest; MODIS image; remote sensing; wildfires

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUXES; DATA SOURCE; DETECTION ACCURACY; FIRE DETECTION; FIRE FREQUENCIES; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; FOREST; FOREST FIRE MONITORING; GLOBAL COVERAGE; IRANIAN FORESTS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS IMAGE; NATURAL DISASTERS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SATURATION LEVELS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACE-GASES; WILDFIRES;

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

CARBON FLUX; DEFORESTATION; GRASSLAND; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACE GAS; WILDFIRE;

DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

IRAN;

EID: 79953103081     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2088111     Document Type: Article

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