Standardized time-series and interannual phenological deviation: New techniques for burned-area detection using long-term MODIS-NBR dataset

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6950-6985

  de Carvalho Júnior, Osmar Abílio ^a   Guimarães, Renato Fontes ^a   Silva, Cristiano Rosa ^a   Gomes, Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digital image processing; Fire; Image differencing; Normalization; Savanna

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FIRES; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; IMAGE DIFFERENCING; NORMALIZATION; NORMALIZATION METHODS; SAVANNA; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; STANDARDIZED METHODS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84933575475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70606950     Document Type: Article

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