Burnt area mapping in insular Southeast Asia using medium resolution satellite imagery

3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 LIST OF ORIGINAL ARTICLES 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 ABBREVIATIONS 7 INTRODUCTION 9 Vegetation fires in tropical regions 9 Monitoring of the occurrence and effects of vegetation fires 9 General 9 Active fire detection 10 Burnt area mapping 10 Characteristics of insular Southeast Asia as a fire region 14 Climate and nature 14 Fires in insular Southeast Asia 16 Special features from the burnt area detection point of view 17 Objective and structure of the study 18 MATERIALS AND METHODS 18 Satellite data 18 Medium and coarse resolution data 18 High resolution reference data 20 Land cover and soil maps 21 Data analysis 23 Analysis on fire-induced spectral changes (I) 23 Evaluation of multitemporal compositing methods (III) 26 Investigation of burn scar patterns and size distribution (IV) 27 Assessment of the usability of super-resolution MODIS images (V) 28 MAIN RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 28 Fire-induced spectral changes (I, II, IV) 28 Multitemporal compositing for burnt area mapping (III) 32 Variability of fire regimes and its effect on burnt area mapping (II, IV) 34 Usability of the super-resolution images (V) 38 CONCLUSIONS 39 REFERENCES 41