Validation of the USGS Landsat Burned Area Essential Climate Variable (BAECV) across the conterminous United States

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 198, Issue , 2017, Pages 393-406

  Vanderhoof, Melanie K ^a   Fairaux, Nicole ^a   Beal, Yen Ju G ^a   Hawbaker, Todd J ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Burned area; Essential climate variable; Fire; Landsat; Validation; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FIRES;

BURNED AREAS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; LANDSAT; VALIDATION; WILDFIRE;

PIXELS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIRE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCRUB; SHRUB;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85021673794     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.025     Document Type: Article

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