Validation of the two standard MODIS satellite burned-area products and an empirically-derived merged product in South Africa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1275-1293

  Tsela, Philemon ^a   Wessels, Konrad ^a,b   Botai, Joel ^a   Archibald, Sally ^c,d   Swanepoel, Derick ^b   Steenkamp, Karen ^b   Frost, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biome; Burned area; Landsat TM; MODIS product

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894613715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6021275     Document Type: Article

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