Synergy of VSWIR (0.4-2.5μm) and MTIR (3.5-12.5μm) data for post-fire assessments

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 771-779

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Carbon; Char; Charcoal; Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR); Fire severity; Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis (MESMA); Spectral unmixing; Wildfire emission

Indexed keywords

BURN SEVERITY; CHAR; DIFFERENCED NORMALIZED BURN RATIO (DNBR); FIRE SEVERITY; MULTIPLE ENDMEMBER SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL UNMIXING;

CARBON; CHARCOAL; ESTIMATION; INFRARED RADIATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

ASTER; CHARCOAL; DATA SET; FIRE BEHAVIOR; IMAGERY; MODIS; PIXEL; SENSOR; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SHRUB; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 84864053178     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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