Monitoring of wildfires in Boreal Forests using large area AVHRR NDVI composite image data

Kasischke, Eric S.; French, Nancy H. F.; Harrell, Peter; Christensen, Norman L.; Ustin, Susan L.; Barry, D. J.

doi:10.1016/0034-4257(93)90082-9

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“…Fire is an important disturbance regime in forests and is the primary process that organizes the physical and biological functions of the boreal biome [15,16]. Due to the slow vegetation recovery process, an increase in boreal forest burning can substantially modify the carbon balance [17].…”

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Burned Area Mapping in the North American Boreal Forest Using Terra-MODIS LTDR (2001–2011): A Comparison with the MCD45A1, MCD64A1 and BA GEOLAND-2 Products

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Burned Area Mapping in the North American Boreal Forest Using Terra-MODIS LTDR (2001–2011): A Comparison with the MCD45A1, MCD64A1 and BA GEOLAND-2 Products

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“…Studies differed mainly on the use of diverse spectral indices, although most commonly, burn scar areas were discriminated from a multi-temporal comparison of NDVI (Kasischke and French, 1993;Martin and Chuvieco, 1995;Pereira, 1999). More recently other global burnt area datasets were derived from SPOT Vegetation and the ATSR-2 on board of Envisat (Gregorie et al, 2003, Tansey et al, 2004Simon et al, 2004).…”

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Use of Remote Sensing in Wildfire Management

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Bourgeau‐Chavez²,

San-Miguel-Ayanz³

2012

Sustainable Development - Authoritative and Leading Edge Content for Environmental Management

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“…In the end, a physically-based fire detection model has been developed in order to understand what the limitations are for fire detection using each instrument. Further, the results of the model will also provide insights into how to interpret the fire products that are being derived using various instruments and methodologies (e.g., Cahoon et al, 1992a, Elvidge et al, 1996Flasse and Ceccato, 1996;Justice and Dowty, 1994;Kasischke et al, 1993;Lee and Tag, 1990).…”

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Wildland Fire Detection from Space: Theory and Application

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Alexander

Baum

et al. 2000

Advances in Global Change Research

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New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission.Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the last two decades has been exploiting measurements obtained for other objectives. The current fire products have proved to be of great benefit and interest, but their usefulness is not fully understood. Part of the confusion about the utility of these measurements stems from the lack of detailed knowledge about the data and its acquisition. The remote sensing research community has spent considerable time and effort trying to rationalize the usefulness of existing satellite imagery for active fire detection. Unfortunately, uncertainties about instrument capabilities pervades much of this research and the true limits of fire detection from space have not been fully evaluated and understood.To analyze the active fire detection capability of any instrument, the flow of energy from the source to the instrument and the instrument's response to that energy must be considered. For this reason, an approach has been developed that models the energy emitted from surface fires, allowing for the fact that fire is itself a variable phenomenon. The energy transmission is then modeled along its path through the atmosphere and through the instrument's optical system. A fundamental concern is in the estimation of the total surface area that emits the energy which defines a single pixel in the image. Unfortunately, most of the fire detection modeling done to date is based on a misconception about the pixel and its actual size. Rather than using the radiometric footprint size, the instantaneousfield-of-view (IFOV) is used to describe the 'resolution' of the instrument. In fact, the radiometric footprint is considerably larger than the IFOV and greatly affects the energy modeling used to estimate the fire detection thresholds of a particular instrument. Based on knowledge of the radiometric footprint, the fire detection capability of AVHRR, DMSP-OLS, and MODIS are reviewed. 2"the pixel, the elementary unit of analysis in remote sensing..., is a delusion which may become a snare for the unwary", P. Fisher (1997).

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Monitoring of wildfires in Boreal Forests using large area AVHRR NDVI composite image data

Cited by 138 publications

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Burned Area Mapping in the North American Boreal Forest Using Terra-MODIS LTDR (2001–2011): A Comparison with the MCD45A1, MCD64A1 and BA GEOLAND-2 Products

Burned Area Mapping in the North American Boreal Forest Using Terra-MODIS LTDR (2001–2011): A Comparison with the MCD45A1, MCD64A1 and BA GEOLAND-2 Products

Use of Remote Sensing in Wildfire Management

Wildland Fire Detection from Space: Theory and Application

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