Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 based Forest fire burn area mapping using machine learning algorithms on GEE cloud platform over Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya

Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

Volumn 18, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Bar, Somnath ^a   Parida, Bikash Ranjan ^a   Pandey, Arvind Chandra ^a  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF JHARKHAND   (India)

Author keywords

Burn area; CART; Forest fire; GEE; RF; SVM; Weka clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 85085095632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23529385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100324     Document Type: Article

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