Title :
Monitoring mediterranean wildlands with very high spatial resolution satellite imagery for fire prevention and control
Author :
Stelzl, Harald ; Wimmer, Andreas ; Raggam, Hannes ; Sacherer, Oliver ; Almer, Alexander ; Banninger, Clifford
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Digital Image Process., Joanneum Res., Graz
Abstract :
The feasibility to extract and visualise forest biometric information from Ikonos and QuickBird satellite imagery was demonstrated for a vegetated area in Portugal
Keywords :
fires; forestry; geophysical signal processing; image classification; image coding; stereo image processing; vegetation mapping; Ikonos satellite imagery; Portugal; QuickBird satellite imagery; fire prevention/control; forest biometric information; image extraction/visualisation; mediterranean wildlands monitoring; vegetated area; very high spatial resolution satellite imagery; Biomass; Biometrics; Data mining; Fires; Image resolution; Monitoring; Multispectral imaging; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spatial resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368509
