Global and regional vegetation fire monitoring from space [electronic resource] : planning a coordinated international effort / edited by Frank J. Ahern, Johann G. Goldammer and Christopher O. Justice.

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9789062997978

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Ahern, Frank J.

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1 online resource (x, 302 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents; Preface; A review of the status of satellite fire monitoring and the requirements for global environmental change research; Satellite earth observation information requirements of the wildland fire management community; Towards the development of an informed global policy on vegetation fires: what role for remote sensing?; Operational use of remote sensing for fire management: regional case studies; Current state of synthesis initiatives in global vegetation fire monitoring.

Forest fire monitoring and mapping for GOFC: current products and information networks based on NOAA-AVHRR, ERS-ATSR, and SPOT-VGT systemsDetection of fires at night using DMSP-OLS data; An overview of diurnal active fire monitoring using a suite of international geostationary satellites; Upcoming sensors for space-borne fire observation; A review of AVHRR-based active fire detection algorithms: principles, limitations, and recommendations; Methods of mapping surfaces burned in vegetation fires; NOAA archi.

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Forest fires -- Remote sensing.

Fire management -- Remote sensing.

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Ahern, Frank J.

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2001

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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).