Application of atmospheric radiance/scattering models in the problem of fire detection from space

* Corresponding author. Abstract – Analysis of the results of detecting fires in the Tomsk region of Western Siberia from space allows us to note the following. Complex situations often arise in satellite observations under conditions of aerosol or semitransparent cloudiness when standard algorithms do not allow one to detect automatically small-sized fires from space. In such situations, the problem can be solved successfully by using atmospheric correction of satellite measurements for the distorting effect of the atmosphere based on atmospheric radiance/scattering models. In this case, a priori information on optical and meteorological parameters of the atmosphere and on the geometry of observations is used. In the present study, some results of numerical simulation and atmospheric correction for the distorting effect of the atmosphere in the problem of fire detection are given.