Open AccessRemote sensing information for fire management and fire effects assessment
Author(s) -
Chuvieco Emilio,
Kasischke Eric S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: biogeosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67
H-Index - 298
eISSN - 2156-2202
pISSN - 0148-0227
DOI - 10.1029/2006jg000230
Subject(s) - geospatial analysis , remote sensing , environmental science , land cover , fire protection , environmental resource management , geomatics , special section , computer science , geography , engineering , land use , civil engineering , engineering physics
Over the past decade, much research has been carried out on the utilization of advanced geospatial technologies (remote sensing and geographic information systems) in the fire science and fire management disciplines. Recent advances in these technologies were the focus of a workshop sponsored by the EARSEL special interest group (SIG) on forest fires (FF‐SIG) and the Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC‐GOLD) fire implementation team. Here we summarize the framework and the key findings of papers submitted from this meeting and presented in this special section. These papers focus on the latest advances for near real‐time monitoring of active fires, prediction of fire hazards and danger, monitoring of fuel moisture, mapping of fuel types, and postfire assessment of the impacts from fires.