Fire Ecology

Table 5 Spatial resolution (m) and center wavelength (µm) of the sensors used for this study.

From: Simulation Approaches for Burn Severity Estimation Using Remotely Sensed Images

Band	Sensor
	SPOT-HRV	LANDSAT-TM²	IRS-AWIFS	ENVISAT-MERIS	TERRA-MODIS
	Spatial resolution (m)
	10 / 20	30	60	300	500
	µm
1	0.545	0.487	0.555	0.413	0.469
2	0.645	0.571	0.650	0.442	0.555
3	0.835	0.661	0.815	0.490	0.645
4	1.675¹	0.837	1.625	0.510	0.857
5		1.677		0.560	1.240
6		Thermal²		0.620	1.640
7		2.215		0.665	2.130
8				0.681
9				0.709
10				0.754
11				0.778
12				0.865
13				0.885

¹HRV 1.675 µm band has 20 m resolution. ²Landsat-TM thermal band was not considered.

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