The synergy of the 0.05° (∼5km) AVHRR long-term data record (LTDR) and landsat TM archive to map large fires in the North American boreal region from 1984 to 1998

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1157-1166

  Moreno Ruiz, Jose A ^a   Garcia Lazaro, Jose R ^a   Riano, David ^b,c   Kefauver, Shawn C ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIC Instituto de Economia Geografia y Demografia IEGD   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian network classifier; boreal region; burned area (BA); Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM); long term data record (LTDR); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (NOAA AVHRR)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN NETWORK CLASSIFIERS; BOREAL REGIONS; BURNED AREAS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LONG TERM DATA RECORD; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

FIRES;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOREAL FOREST; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CANADA;

EID: 84899870790     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2292853     Document Type: Article

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