Author: Robert E. BurganPublisher:
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Using NDVI to Assess Departure from Average Greenness and Its Relation to Fire Business
Author: Robert E. BurganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Using NDVI to Assess Departure from Average Greenness and Its Relation to Fire Business
Author: Using NDVI to Assess Departure from Average Greenness and Its Relation to Fire Business
Author: Robert E. BurganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Forestry Research West
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
General Technical Report INT.
Author: Hayman Fire Case Study
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Category : Fire ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In 2002 much of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado was rich in dry vegetation as a result of fire exclusion and the droughty conditions that prevailed in recent years. These dry and heavy fuel loadings were continuous along the South Platte River corridor located between Denver and Colorado Springs on the Front Range. These topographic and fuel conditions combined with a dry and windy weather system centered over eastern Washington to produce ideal burning conditions. The start of the Hayman Fire was timed and located perfectly to take advantage of these conditions resulting in a wildfire run in 1 day of over 60,000 acres and finally impacting over 138,000 acres. The Hayman Fire Case Study, involving more than 60 scientists and professionals from throughout the United States, examined how the fire behaved, the effects of fuel treatments on burn severity, the emissions produced, the ecological (for example, soil, vegetation, animals) effects, the home destruction, postfire rehabilitation activities, and the social and economic issues surrounding the Hayman Fire. The Hayman Fire Case Study revealed much about wildfires and their interactions with both the social and natural environments. As the largest fire in Colorado history it had a profound impact both locally and nationally. The findings of this study will inform both private and public decisions on the management of natural resources and how individuals, communities, and organizations can prepare for wildfire events.
General Technical Report RMRS
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Wildland Fire Danger Estimation and Mapping
Author: Emilio ChuviecoPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789812791177
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The book presents a wide range of techniques for extracting information from satellite remote sensing images in forest fire danger assessment. It covers the main concepts involved in fire danger rating, and analyses the inputs derived from remotely sensed data for mapping fire danger at both the local and global scale. The questions addressed concern the estimation of fuel moisture content, the description of fuel structural properties, the estimation of meteorological danger indices, the analysis of human factors associated with fire ignition, and the integration of different risk factors in a geographic information system for fire danger management.
Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space
Author: Frank J. AhernPublisher: Kugler Publications
ISBN: 9789051031409
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Introduction Increasing conflagrations of forests and other lands throughout the world during the 1980s and 1990s have made fires in forest and other vegetation emerge as an important global concern. Both the number and severity of wildfires (accidental fires) and the application of fire for land-use change, seem to have increased dramatically compared to previous decades of the twentieth century. The adverse consequences of extensive wildfires cross national boundaries and have global impacts. Fire regimes are changing with climate variability and population dynamics. Satellite remote sensing technology has the potential to play an important role for monitoring fires and their consequences, as well as in operational fire management. In response to this need as well as to respond to other needs for more rapid progress in forest observation, in 1997 the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) initiated Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) as an international pilot project to test the concepts of an Integrated Global Observing System. The GOFC program is currently part of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS). GOFC was designed to bring together data providers and information users to make information products from satellite and in-situ observations of forests more readily available worldwide. Fire Monitoring and Mapping was formed as one of three basic components of GOFC. This book contains eighteen contributions authored by scientists who represent the most active international research and development institutions, aiming at coordinating and improving international efforts for user-oriented systems and products. These papers were initially presented at a GOFC Fire Workshop held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra. The volume is a contribution of the GOFC Forest Fire Monitoring and Mapping Implementation Team to the Interagency Task Force Working Group Wildland Fire of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).
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