Forest Fires Identification Using AATSR and MODIS Data

Forest fire is a kind of worldwide natural calamity. It is extensively distributed with high occurrence frequency and destroys forest resources thus disturbing normal living order of people and leading to environmental deterioration. The appearance and development of modernistic new high technologies, such as Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and Internet, have given more convenience for preventing and decreasing disaster than before. In this study, basing on analyzing the information of related bands of Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) and integration of background GIS data, a forest fire identification methodology has been developed. At the same times, the accuracy of the results by using AATSR and Moderate Resolution Image Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data has been tested in northeast of China.