Comparison of ERS-2 and JERS for fire impact assessment in tropical rainforests

Author

Siegert, Florian ; Nakayama, Mikiyasu

Author_Institution

Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munchen, Germany

Volume

6

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2709

Abstract

In 1997/98 Indonesia has experienced one of the greatest fire disasters ever observed in a tropical rainforest environment in SE-Asia. Following this event ESA and NASDA decided to set up a cooperation project to compare and combine the capabilities of the two SAR satellite sensors systems ERS-1/2 and JERS-1 aiming at an in depth analysis of this disaster. It was investigated whether these SAR systems can provide high resolution data on the pre-fire vegetation cover, the extent of the fire affected area and the damage to the vegetation. The results of the evaluation were quantitatively compared to a Landsat TM scene acquired during the fires and extensive field and aerial surveys

Keywords

disasters; forestry; geophysical techniques; pollution measurement; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; AD 1997; AD 1998; Asia; ERS-2; Indonesia; JERS; SAR; fire disaster; fire impact assessment; forest fire; forestry; geophysical measurement technique; radar remote sensing; rainforest; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; tropical forest; vegetation mapping; wildfire; Agriculture; Clouds; Fires; Pixel; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sensor systems; Spatial resolution; Speckle; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859689

Filename

859689