A study of the 1997 forest fires in south east Asia using SPOT quicklook mosaics

Author

Liew, Soo Chin ; Lim, Oo Kaw ; Kwoh, Leong Keong ; Lim, Hock

Author_Institution

Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing & Process., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

879

Abstract

The ground station at the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP), Singapore has acquired numerous SPOT images of the region during the 1997 forest fire episode in South Asia with almost complete coverage of Sumatra and Borneo. Mosaics of the SPOT quicklook images have been generated to provide a synoptic view of the areal extent of the fires affected areas. The total area of burnt scars was estimated to be 1.50×10⁶ ha in Sumatra and 3.06×10⁶ ha in Kalimantan

Keywords

air pollution measurement; fires; geophysical signal processing; image classification; remote sensing; AD 1997; Borneo; CRISP; Centre for Remote Imaging Sensing and Processing; Indonesia; Kalimantan; SPOT images; SPOT quicklook mosaics; Sumatra; burnt scars; forest fires; quicklook images; south east Asia; synoptic view; Aerosols; Asia; Fires; Image resolution; Image sensors; Layout; Pixel; Remote monitoring; Satellite broadcasting; Sensor phenomena and characterization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.699613

Filename

699613