EARLY DETECTION OF FOREST FIRES FROM SPACE ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: MONITORING OF BOREAL FOREST FIRES IN THE TOMSK REGION OF WESTERN SIBERIA ; 1.1. IMAGE PROCESSING ; 1.2. RESULTS ; Chapter 2: SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS OF THE TEMPERATURE MONITORING OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE FROM SPACE ON THE BASIS OF THE RTM METHOD ; 2.1. Formulation of the Problem of Fire Detection from Space ; 2.2. RETRIEVAL OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE ; 2.3. DISTORTIONS OF THERMAL RADIATION BY MOLECULAR ATMOSPHERE ; Chapter 3: SOFTWARE AND VALIDATION OF MODIS ATMOSPHERIC DATA
3.1. STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM COMPLEX 3.2. VALIDATION OF MOD07 DATA (ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES) ; 3.3. VALIDATION OF MOD04 DATA (AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH); 3.4. TESTING OF RTM METHOD FOR METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF TOMSK ; Chapter 4: APPLICATIONS OF RTM-METHOD ; 4.1. AN EXAMPLE OF THE RTM-METHOD APPLICATION ; 4.2. APPLICATION OF THE RTM METHOD TO DETECTION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE OBJECTS ; Chapter 5: CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; INDEX
