BAMS: A tool for supervised burned area mapping using landsat data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12360-12380

  Bastarrika, Aitor ^a   Alvarado, Maite ^a   Artano, Karmele ^a   Martinez, Maria Pilar ^a   Mesanza, Amaia ^a   Torre, Leyre ^a   Ramo, Rubén ^b   Chuvieco, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

ArcGIS; Burned area mapping; Fires; Landsat; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920065099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212360     Document Type: Article

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