EVALUATION OF THE THERMAL INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGES APPLIANCE FOR VEGETATION INTERPRETATION (CASE STUDY OF BERING AND KUNASHIR ISLANDS)

• Published in: Proceedings of the International conference “InterCarto/InterGIS”
• Main Authors: M. Yu. Grishchenko, S. A. Butorina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Laboratory of Complex Mapping, Faculty of Geography, MSU 2017
• Subjects: thermal infrared images; Landsat; geographical interpretation of satellite images; Kunashir island; Bering island; geo; archeo; Buyan; Bering Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24057/2414-9179-2017-3-23-71-81; https://doaj.org/article/530b5b5eb8884524a602099d67e31356

Thermal infrared satellite images are a promising source of information about geographic objects; many of their interpretive features have not been fully examined yet. In this paper we study the possibility of revealing the vegetation cover and certain vegetation communities using thermal infrared s...