Forest fire detection in Far East region of Russia by using NOAA AVHRR images

Author

Kawano, Koichi ; Kudoh, Jun-ichi ; Makino, Shozo

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci., Tohoku Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

858

Abstract

The forest fires of Far East region of Russia occurred in April 1998, have been burning during about a halfyear. About 2 million hectares were burned over in 1998. In this region, forest fires occur every year, and large frres in extreme years are remarkable because they affect the Earth environment more than annual fires. The authors developed a new method of fire detection for multidimensional satellite images to monitor the extent of large forest fires and to estimate burned areas. This method is based on the 3 dimensional histogram. It might be possible to make a fire category database

Keywords

air pollution measurement; fires; forestry; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; AVHRR; IR; NOAA; Russia; Siberia; detection; forest fire; forestry; geophysical measurement technique; infrared method; optical imaging; satellite remote sensing; vegetation mapping; visible; Aggregates; Brightness; Computational Intelligence Society; Data visualization; Fires; Histograms; Image analysis; Layout; Multispectral imaging; Pixel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774465

Filename

774465