COAL FIRE QUANTIFICATION USING ASTER, ETM AND BIRD SATELLITE INSTRUMENT DATA Anke Tetzlaff Munich 2004 Cover: Night-time thermal images of the Wuda coalfield in China with corresponding energy images, taken with the ETM satellite instrument. Red outlines mark coal fire induced surface anomaly zones mapped during the field campaign in September 2002. The energy values reflect coal fire related surface radiative energy releases [MW] of the entire investigated coal fire zones. The energy retrievals were computed via a new satellite based coal fire quantification approach that is presented in the following thesis. Upper left) ETM th thTIR channel, 28 September 2002 (night-time); upper right) energy image 28 September th 2002 (night-time); lower left) ETM TIR channel 25 September 2001 (night-time); lower th right) energy image 25 September 2001 (night-time). Coal fire quantification using ASTER, ETM and BIRD satellite instrument data Anke Tetzlaff Dissertation Faculty of GeosciencesLudwig-Maximilians-University Munich Anke Tetzlaff Munich, September 2004 First referee: Prof. Dr. W. Altermann Second referee:Dr. F.