Detection of coal fire dynamics and propagation direction from multi-temporal nighttime landsat SWIR and TIR data: A case study on the Rujigou Coalfield, Northwest (NW) China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1234-1259

  Huo, Hongyuan ^a,b   Jiang, Xiaoguang ^a   Song, Xianfeng ^a   Li, Zhao Liang ^b,c   Ni, Zhuoya ^b,d   Gao, Caixia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Coal fires; Dynamics; ETM+; Multi temporal remote sensing; Thresholding technique; TM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894637628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6021234     Document Type: Article

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