Monitoring Burnt Areas in Portugal Using NOAA/AVHRR Imagery
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The summer season of 2003 in Continental Portugal was by far the worst in what respects both to the number of forest fires and the amount of burnt area. In the present work, burnt area monitoring was performed using NOAA/AVHRR imagery by means of a neuro-fuzzy (ANFIS) algorithm that was applied on an operational basis to the surface of the country. Validation of obtained results was performed both in space and time against information from an end of fire season burnt area map based on TERRA/MODIS data and from the General Directorate of Forests (DGF) database, respectively. A good agreement between the automatic classification and in situ observations was found for the cases of wildfires of larger extent.
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