Early characterization of the active fire detection products derived from the next generation NPOESS/VIIRS and GOES-R/ABI instruments

Author

Schroeder, Wilfrid ; Csiszar, Ivan ; Giglio, Louis ; Ellicott, Evan ; Schmidt, Christopher C. ; Hoffman, James P. ; Lindstrom, Scott

Author_Institution

Cooperative Inst. for Climate & Satellites, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

2683

Lastpage

2686

Abstract

In this study, we discuss the early characterization of the active fire products derived from NPOESS/VIIRS and GOES-R ABI proxy data generated using ASTER and MODIS L1B input data, respectively. Improvements in spatial resolution of both VIIRS and ABI instruments result in higher probability of detection compared to their predecessors (MODIS and GOES Imager, respectively). The onboard pixel aggregation scheme that will be applied to VIIRS M15 band used by the fire algorithm shall reduce the probability of fire detection for relatively small fires compared to the unaggregated data, whereas the lower saturation temperature of band M15 could result in more frequent ambiguous fire detection information.

Keywords

fires; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; ASTER; GOES-R/ABI instrument; MODIS L1B input data; VIIRS M15 band; active fire detection products; early characterization; fire algorithm; next generation NPOESS/VIIRS; onboard pixel aggregation scheme; Atmospheric modeling; Fires; MODIS; Pixel; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Fires; Remote Sensing; Validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650863

Filename

5650863