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Performance of heat spots obtained from satellite datasets to represent burned areas in Andean ecosystems of Cusco, Peru
(Elsevier, 2023-07-08)
The combustion of biomass is a prevalent practice in the Andes. Often, these burns escape control and escalate into wildfires. However, the investigation of unreported fire incidents has not received the same level of ...
Space-time dynamics of the burns in Brazil in the period 2003 to 2018Dinâmica espaço-temporal das queimadas no Brasil no período de 2003 a 2018
(2020-01-01)
In Brazil, vegetation fires are characterized by extensive and rapidly spreading fire lines that cause the mortality of flora and fauna species. Public policies were implemented to mitigate these damages, and for their ...
Drivers of fire occurrence in a mountainous Brazilian cerrado savanna: Tracking long-term fire regimes using remote sensing
(2017-07-01)
Fire is a natural disturbance in savannas, and defines vegetation physiognomy and structure, often influencing species diversity. Fire activity is determined by a wide range of factors, including long and short term climatic ...
Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management
(Springer International Publishing AG, 2020-06)
Purpose This paper reviews the most recent literature related to the use of remote sensing (RS) data in wildland fire management. Recent Findings Studies dealing with pre-fire assessment, active fire detection, and fire ...
On the use of satellite Sentinel 2 data for automatic mapping of burnt areas and burn severity
(MDPI AG, 2018-10)
In this paper, we present and discuss the preliminary tools we devised for the automatic recognition of burnt areas and burn severity developed in the framework of the EU-funded SERV_FORFIRE project. The project is focused ...
Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires
(2019)
In January 2017, hundreds of fires in Mediterranean Chile burnt more than 5000km(2), an area nearly 14 times the 40-year mean. We contextualize these fires in terms of estimates of global fire intensity using MODIS satellite ...
Human-climate interactions shape fire regimes in the Cerrado of São Paulo state, Brazil
(2021-06-01)
The Cerrado is the most diverse tropical savanna in the world. As a fire-prone ecosystem, natural fire in the Cerrado shapes plant communities and drives evolutionary processes. Human activities and landscape management ...
Structural resistance and functional resilience of the Chaco forest to wildland fires: an approach with MODIS time series
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2021-04)
Forests have resistance that allows them to resist fires without changing to another state, and resilience that allows them to recover after disturbance. These properties are determined by many structural and functional ...
Potential conditions for fire occurrence in vegetation in the Peruvian Andes
(CSIRO Publishing, 2021-10-12)
Fire activity in the Peruvian Andes has increased significantly in recent decades, but climatic parameters associated with drought, which may indirectly contribute to the occurrence of severe forest fires, have not yet ...