To map wildland fires for emission estimation in California, this paper presents an integrated approach to wildfire mapping using daily data of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on board a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) satellite. The approach consists of two parts: active fire detection and burnt area mapping. In active fire detection, we combined t...

In this study a number of linear semiempirical kernelrado. Subsets of these data have been used in other studies as a means of investigating variations in the bidirectional driven (LiSK) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) models are adjusted against an extensive Adreflectance distribution function (BRDF) and albedo at the grassland and grassland-mesquite transition sites wit...

As a result of increasing attention paid to aerosols in climate studies, numerous global satellite aerosol products have been generated. Aerosol parameters and underlining physical processes are now incorporated in many general circulation models (GCMs) in order to account for their direct and indirect effects on the earth’s climate, through their interactions with the energy and water cycles. ...

Using the NOAA-14 1-km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) imager data, smoke aerosol optical thickness (t) is retrieved over land during the Smoke, Clouds and Radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B) experiment in Brazil during August–September 1995. The satellite-retrievedt values are then compared against ground-based sunphotom...

A new software tool for the automatic detection and monitoring of plumes caused by major industrial accidents is described. This tool has been designed in order to use near real time information as provided by satellite images, perform sophisticated image analysis and elaborate a user-friendly operational environment for the detection of plumes caused by major industrial accidents. The methodol...