A new technique for visualization of forest fire smoke plumes using MODIS data

• Published in: 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium pp. 2380 - 2383
• Main Authors: Nagatani, I., Kudoh, J., Kawano, K.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2012
• Subjects: Aerosols; Clouds; Fires; forest fire smoke; Image color analysis; image enhancement; Indexes; MODIS; Reflectivity; smoke plume detection; visualization

Forest fire smoke detection by satellites is important and required for monitoring air pollution and human health. MODIS smoke detection algorithms are under development. The common problem is to separate smoke from clouds. To overcome this issue we propose a new visualization technique of a false-c...