A Regional workshop was held January 22-24, 2002 as a special session of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Working Group, Phuket, Thailand. Workshop presentations and report are posted at http://www.eoc.ukm.my/searin/calval_workshop.htm. Study plan defines to evaluate the accuracy of active fire detections from AVHRR, DMSP, and MODIS and burn scar from MODIS using day and night Landsat ETM, SPOT, ASTER, and ground truth (where available). Study sites defined in Thailand and Malaysia/Indonesia. Follow-on workshop planned for January 2003.

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