Analysis and assessment of the spatial and temporal distribution of burned areas in the amazon forest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8002-8025

  da Silva Cardozo, Francielle ^a   Pereira, Gabriel ^b   Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir ^a   Moraes, Elisabete Caria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest; Burned areas; Deforestation; Land use; Linear spectral mixture model

Indexed keywords

LAND USE;

AMAZON FORESTS; AMAZON RAIN FOREST; BURNED AREAS; LINEAR SPECTRAL MIXTURE MODEL; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

DEFORESTATION;

EID: 84907463876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098002     Document Type: Article

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