The GIS Technology Application for the Forest and Grassland Fire Monitoring by Using Meteorological Satellite Data

  • Zhe, Xu (National Meteorological Satellite Center) ;
  • Cheng, Liu (National Meteorological Satellite Center)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

Owing to the higher temporal resolution, meteorological satellite data is widely used to monitor the disasters happened on the earth's surface. However, the precision of identifying disaster information is limited by the poor spatial resolution. As known, GIS technology is good at processing and analyzing the geographic information. The result shows, integrating with GIS technology, the ability of monitoring forest fire using meteorological satellite data has been greatly improved.

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