Detection of burned areas from mega-fires using daily and historical MODIS surface reflectance

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1167-1187

  Zhang, Rui ^a   Qu, John J ^b   Liu, Yongqiang ^c   Hao, Xianjun ^b   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Zhan, Xiwu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

COMPOSITE INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; STATISTICAL DATAS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VALIDATION RESULTS;

FIRES;

ALGORITHM; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; NDVI; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923363837     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1007256     Document Type: Article

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