Automatic burned land mapping from MODIS time series images: Assessment in Mediterranean ecosystems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3401-3413

  Bastarrika, Aitor ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^b   Martin, M Pilar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c National Research Council   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burned areas; contextual algorithms; logistic regression; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Indexed keywords

BURNED AREAS; BURNED-AREA MAPPING; CONTEXTUAL ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTORS; KAPPA VALUES; LAND MAPPING; LANDSAT TM/ETM+; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OMISSION ERRORS; REFERENCE DATA; SCATTERGRAPHS; SECOND PHASE; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; TEMPORAL WINDOWS; TIME-SERIES DATA;

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES;

RADIOMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BURNING; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 80052327247     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2128327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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