FUEGO - Fire urgency estimator in geosynchronous orbit - A proposed early-warning fire detection system

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5173-5192

  Pennypacker, Carlton R ^a,b   Jakubowski, Marek K ^c   Kelly, Maggi ^c   Lampton, Michael ^a,b   Schmidt, Christopher ^d   Stephens, Scott ^c   Tripp, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire detection; FUEGO; Geosynchronous; Infrared; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FIRE DETECTION; FIRE DETECTION SYSTEMS; FUEGO; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; GEOSYNCHRONOUS; GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; FIRE DETECTORS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING;

FIRES;

EID: 84887527140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5105173     Document Type: Article

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