Remote-sensing-based coal-fire detection with low-resolution MODIS data

GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2007, Pages 229-238

  Hecker, Christoph ^a   Kuenzer, Claudia ^b   Zhang, Jianzhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated detection algorithm; Coal fires; Landsat; MODIS; Remote sensing; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

COAL; FIRES; RADIOMETERS;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; COAL FIRES; LANDSAT; MODIS; THERMAL INFRARED;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84902022238     PISSN: 00802018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.4118(15)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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