An active-fire based burned area mapping algorithm for the MODIS sensor - Giglio, Louis; Loboda, Tatiana; Roy, David P.; Quayle, Brad; Justice, Christopher O. (Remote sensing of environment, 2009)
Keywords: Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied geophysics; Biological and medical sciences; Biomass burning; Burn scar; Burned area; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; Fire; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects. Techniques; Internal geophysics; MODIS; Teledetection and vegetation maps; Russian Federation; Eurasia; United States; Southern Africa; Africa; Siberia; Russia, Siberia; USA; Burn scar; Burned area; Biomass burning; MODIS; Fire; algorithms; Vegetation index; textures; accuracy; measurement sensor; North America; trees; evaluation; dynamics; automation; imagery; high resolution; Threshold; biomass; maps; Space remote sensing; Landsat; cartography; fires; methodology