Simultaneous detection of burned areas of multiple fires in the tropics using multisensor remote sensing data

• Main Authors: Phua, Mui How, Satoshi Tsuyuki, Jung, Soo Lee, Mohammad Abdullah A. Ghani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20397/1/Simultaneous%20detection%20of%20burned%20areas%20of%20multiple%20fires%20in%20the%20tropics%20using%20multisensor%20remote%20sensing%20data.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20397/; https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2011.643460
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Fires associated with recurrent El Niño events have caused severe damage to tropical peat swamp forests. Accurate quantitative information about the frequency and distribution of the burned areas is imperative to fire management but is lacking in the tropics. This article examines a novel method bas...