An integrated approach for wildland fire mapping in California, USA using NOAA/AVHRR data

Author

Gong, P. ; Pu, R. ; Li, Z. ; Scarborough, James

Author_Institution

Center for Assessment & Monitoring of Forest & Environ. Resources, California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2760

Abstract

We developed a technique for mapping wildland fire in California, USA, using NOAA-14/AVHRR/HRPT data. We integrated a modified active fire detection algorithm and a modified HANDS algorithm. The technique was applied to map wildland fires in California during the 1999 fire season. Reliable results were produced. Most of the wildfires mapped were correct through visual inspection of satellite composite images, validation based on limited ground truth data from the California Departemnt of Forestry and Fire Protection and interpreted burned areas from TM scenes

Keywords

fires; forestry; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; vegetation mapping; AVHRR; California; HANDS; IR; USA; United States; algorithm; burnt area; detection; forest; geophysical measurement technique; hotspot; infrared; multispectral remote sensing; optical imaging; optical method; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; visible; wildfire; wildland fire; Educational institutions; Filters; Fires; Meteorology; Monitoring; Statistics; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978154

Filename

978154