A method for extracting burned areas from Landsat TM/ETM+ images by soft aggregation of multiple Spectral Indices and a region growing algorithm

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 69, Issue , 2012, Pages 88-102

  Stroppiana, D ^a   Bordogna, G ^b   Carrara, P ^a   Boschetti, M ^a   Boschetti, L ^c   Brivio, P A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire perimeters; Fuzzy set theory; Mediterranean environment; Multi criteria approach

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; BURNED AREAS; ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE; FIRE EVENT; LANDSAT; LANDSAT TM IMAGES; LANDSAT TM/ETM+; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MISSING DATA; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; NEGATIVE EVIDENCE; OMISSION ERRORS; PROCESSING CHAIN; REGION GROWING; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM; SATELLITE DATA; SEED SELECTION; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL INDICES; SURFACE SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VARIABLE NUMBER;

FUZZY SET THEORY; SOFT COMPUTING;

FIRE HAZARDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; THRESHOLD;

SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84860128459     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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