
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Harris, AJL 
T1  - Towards Automated Fire Monitoring From Space: Semi-Automated Mapping of the January 1994 New South Wales Wildfires Using AVHRR Data.
JF  - International Journal of Wildland Fire
JO  - Int. J. Wildland Fire
Y1  - 1996
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SP  - 107
EP  - 116
KW  - New South Wales; AVHRR; Hot spots; Automated;Fire detection; Fire map.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9960107 
N2  - The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) is capable of providing low cost thermal data in which wild-fires can easily be detected. Data are available for large areas (~ 3000 x 6000 km) at-least 4 times a day, and can be received directly by the user. An automated hot-spot detection technique inserted into the data stream could therefore provide timely fire information for wild-fire monitoring. Such an automated technique is applied to AVHRR data acquired for the wild-fires which burnt extensive areas in New South Wales, Australia, during January 1994. The technique allows rapid production of fire maps. These revealed a number of major fires burning mainly within the National Parks, impacting on settlements and roads. Such a synoptic view of these fire events would be difficult to obtain using any other means. 
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