Enhancement of a fire detection algorithm by eliminating solar reflection in the mid-IR band: Application to AVHRR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7047-7059

  He, Liming ^a,b   Li, Zhanqing ^a,c  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ERRORS; FIRE DETECTORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

FALSE DETECTIONS; FIRE DETECTION; FIRE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; FIRE EMISSIONS; FIRE MONITORING; MIDDLE INFRARED; OMISSION ERRORS; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

FIRES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AVHRR; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIRE; SATELLITE DATA;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84863507275     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2012.699202     Document Type: Article

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