학술논문
Evaluating the Sentinel-2a Satellite Data for Fuel Moisture Content Retrieval
Document Type
Conference
Source
IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International. :9416-9419 Jul, 2019
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Language
ISSN
2153-7003
Abstract
Fuel moisture content (FMC) of vegetation canopy is a critical variable in affecting wildfire behavior. Methodologies based on multiple sources of remote sensing data have shown a prominent advantage for spatial and temporal FMC mapping. However, there is no study focused on FMC retrieval using the Sentinel-2A satellite data to date. This study is to evaluate the performance of this data for FMC retrieval under the framework of the multiple coupled radiative transfer models. Due to the limited field measurements and discontinuous satellite data, only 15 field measurements from USA, South Africa, Australia and France were available for the validation of the retrieved FMC. Results show that the retrieved FMCs were promising with R 2 = 0.64 and RMSE = 47.16%, which demonstrated the potential usage of the Sentinel-2A data for FMC mapping and further applications for early-warning of wildfire risk.