Development and testing of algorithms for a global burnt area product from ERS ATSR-2

Author

Arino, Olivier ; Piccolini, Isidoro

Author_Institution

Directorate of Appl., ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

304

Abstract

A set of algorithms capable of detecting burnt areas from vegetation fires at a global scale, across the major biomes have been tested in order to adopt a single algorithm. The different algorithm limitations are quantified considering the errors of commission/omission and over/under estimation of burnt areas. The main ecosystems studied were the dense humid tropical forest, the savanna-forest interface, Mediterranean forest and shrub land, boreal forest and tundra. Algorithm evaluation was performed against high resolution satellite imagery (mostly from Landsat TM) as reference data

Keywords

fires; forestry; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; ATSR; ATSR-2; ERS; IR radiometry; algorithm; burnt area; fire; forest; geophysical measurement technique; global distribution; infrared radiometry; land surface; satellite remote sensing; savanna; shrub; terrain mapping; tropical forest; tundra; vegetation mapping; Convergence; Ecosystems; Global warming; Image retrieval; Pixel; Production; Reflectivity; Satellites; System testing; 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.2000.860500

Filename

860500