Evaluating spectral indices for burned area discrimination using MODIS/ASTER (MASTER) airborne simulator data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2702-2709

  Veraverbeke, S ^a   Harris, S ^a,b   Hook, S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced Spaceborne and Thermal Emission Radiometer; Burned area mapping; Emissivity; Fire; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; Normalized Burn Ratio; Southern California

Indexed keywords

BURNED AREA MAPPING; EMISSIVITY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED BURN RATIO; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FIRES; GAS EMISSIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RATING; SENSORS;

INFRARED RADIATION;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ASTER; BURNING; DATA SET; EMISSIVITY; MODIS; NEAR INFRARED; SHRUB; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TRACE GAS; VEGETATION TYPE; WILDFIRE; WOODLAND;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960729880     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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