Evaluation of forest fire on Madeira Island using Sentinel-2A MSI imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages 97-106

  Navarro, Gabriel ^a   Caballero, Isabel ^a   Silva, Gustavo ^b   Parra, Pedro Cecilio ^c   Vázquez, Águeda ^d   Caldeira, Rui ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^b Tecnologia e Inovação ARDITI   (Portugal)

^c Proyectos de Ingeniería Medioambiental   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Madeira fires; Sentinel 2; Spectral indices

Indexed keywords

BURNING; FOREST FIRE; NDVI; REFORESTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENTINEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

MADEIRA; PORTUGAL;

EID: 85032227772     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.02.003     Document Type: Article

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