%0 Journal Article
%4 sid.inpe.br/iris@1915/2006/01.10.16.00
%2 sid.inpe.br/iris@1915/2006/01.10.16.00.56
%@doi 10.1109/LGRS.2005.850364
%@issn 1545-598X
%T Assessment of deforestation in near real time over the Brazilian Amazon using multitemporal fraction images derived from Terra MODIS
%D 2005
%8 July
%9 journal article
%A Anderson, Liana O.,
%A Shimabukuro, Edemir Yosio,
%A Defries, Ruth S.,
%A Morton, Douglas C.,
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)/CPTEC
%@affiliation
%@affiliation Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, United States
%@affiliation NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
%B IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
%V 2
%N 3
%P 315-318
%K Data reduction, Deforestation, Optical resolving power, Radiometers, Real time systems, Soils, Amazon region, Fraction images, Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, Spatial resolution, Imaging systems, Deforestation, Radiometry.
%X We present a methodology for rapidly assessing deforestation over the Amazon region needed for policy intervention. We use soil fraction images generated from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data at 250-m spatial resolution. Results showed reasonable agreement with higher resolution Landsat data (r/sup 2/=0.73) for our study area. MODIS data are promising for near real-time deforestation monitoring, previously not practical with Landsat data.
%@language en
%3 Shimabukuro_Assessment.pdf