Title :
Siberian forest fire detection using NOAA AVHRR
Author :
Fujiwara, Kazuhiko ; Kudoh, Jun-ichi
Author_Institution :
Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
Abstract :
The authors detected forest fires in Siberian areas with NOAA AVHRR and compared the results with ground truth data. They developed a new forest fire detection with channel 3A which was newly equipped with NOAA-15. They observed forest fire areas around Novosibirsk in August 1999
Keywords :
fires; forestry; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; 1.58 to 1.64 micron; AD 1999; AVHRR; IR method; Russia; Siberia; forest fire; infrared radiometry; measurement technique; satellite remote sensing; vegetation mapping; wildfire; Earth; Fires; Humans; Land surface temperature; Monitoring; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Smoke detectors; Temperature sensors; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977035
