Global Fire Mapping and Fire Danger Estimation Using AVHRR Images - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Fire Mapping and Fire Danger Estimation Using AVHRR Images write by Emilio Chuvieco. This book was released on 1994. Global Fire Mapping and Fire Danger Estimation Using AVHRR Images available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wildland Fire Danger
Wildland Fire Danger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wildland Fire Danger write by Emilio Chuvieco. This book was released on 2003. Wildland Fire Danger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space write by Frank J. Ahern. This book was released on 2001. Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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).
Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires
Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires write by Emilio Chuvieco. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book provides a systematic review of the different applications for remote sensing and geographical information system techniques in research and management of forest fires. The authors have been involved in this field of research for several years. The book also benefits from data generated within the Megafires project, founded under the DG-XII of the European Union. A clear integration of research and experience is provided. New data gathered from fires affecting European countries between 1991 and 1997 are included as well as satellite images and auxiliary cartographic information. Geographic Information System files have been included in the attached CD-ROM depicting land cover, elevation, Koeppen classification climates and NOAA-AVHRR data of all European Mediterranean Europe at 1 sq km resolution. All these files are in Idrisi format and can be easily accessed from any GIS program. An Idrisi viewer has also been included in the CD-ROM.
Earth Observation of Global Change
Earth Observation of Global Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth Observation of Global Change write by Emilio Chuvieco. This book was released on 2007-10-28. Earth Observation of Global Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global Change is increasingly considered a critical topic in environmental research. Remote sensing methods provide a useful tool to monitor global variables, since they provide a systematic coverage of the Earth’s surface, at different spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions. This book offers an analysis of the leading missions in global Earth observation, and reviews the main fields in which remote sensing methods are providing vital data for global change studies.
