Assessment of burned areas in Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from a systematic sample of medium resolution satellite imagery

Author

Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir ; Beuchle, Rene ; Grecchi, Rosana Cristina ; Simonetti, Dario ; Achard, Frederic

Author_Institution

Joint Res. Centre of the Eur. Comm., Inst. for Environ. & Sustainability (IES), Ispra, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

4257

Lastpage

4259

Abstract

This paper presents a method for mapping and assessing burned areas at a regional scale, using a systematic sample of medium spatial resolution satellite images (Landsat). The State of Mato Grosso, located in the Brazilian Amazon region, comprising an area of approximately 903,366 km², was selected for this study. 77 sample sites (20km × 20km in size) located at each full degree confluence of latitude and longitude were analyzed. The results showed that 52,663 km² or approximately 5.8% of the State land cover was burned in 2010. Our method produced results comparable with PanAmazonia Project data and useful for evaluating burned area products based on coarse spatial resolution imagery like MODIS or SPOT-VEGETATION.

Keywords

geophysical techniques; land cover; radiometry; AD 2010; Brazil; Brazilian Amazon region; Landsat; MODIS; Mato Grosso State burned area assessment; PanAmazonia Project data; SPOT-VEGETATION; burned area assessment; burned area mapping; burned area product evaluation; coarse spatial resolution imagery; latitude full degree confluence; longitude full degree confluence; medium spatial resolution satellite image systematic sample; regional scale; state land cover; Earth; Fires; MODIS; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Brazilian Amazon; Burned areas; Landsat TM; Sampling approach;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947429

Filename

6947429