Assessing the influence of atmospheric and topographic correction and inclusion of SWIR bands in burned scars detection from high-resolution EO imagery: a case study using ASTER

Natural Hazards

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1609-1628

  Said, Yahia Abbi ^a   Petropoulos, George P ^b   Srivastava, Prashant K ^c,d,e  

^a MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA   (Greece)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

ASTER; Atmospheric correction; Burned area mapping; Greece; Remote sensing; Topography; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

ASTER; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CARTOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHY; WILDFIRE;

GREECE;

EID: 84938970510     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1792-9     Document Type: Article

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