Forest areas in Portugal are often affected by fires. The objective of this work was to analyze
the most fire-affected areas in Portugal in the summer of 2016 for two municipalities …

Vegetation recovery after the large wildfires that occurred in central Portugal in 2017 is
assessed in the present study. These wildfires had catastrophic consequences, among …

A methodology to estimate the extent of areas affected by forest fires, as well as the burn
severity levels using Sentinel 2 images (10 and 20 m) is proposed and applied to the fires …

The recent launch of Sentinel missions offers a unique opportunity to assess the impacts of
wildfires at higher spatial and spectral resolution provided by those Earth Observing (EO) …

Forest fires in Galicia have become a serious environmental problem over the years. This is
especially the case in the Pontevedra region, where in October 2017 large fires (> 500 …

A forest fire started on August 8th, 2016 in several places on Madeira Island causing
damage and casualties. As of August 10th the local media had reported the death of three …

In the past few decades, forest fires have increased in number and severity, especially in the
Mediterranean regions of Türkiye and Greece, where significant fires caused damage to …

The impact of forest fires in Europe is assessed in the European Forest Fire Information
System (EFFIS) from two independent information sources: field data collected at national …

Nowadays Earth observation satellites, in particular Landsat, provide a valuable help to
forest managers in post-fire operations; being the base of post-fire damage maps that …

Wildfires are currently one of the most important environmental problems, as they cause
disturbance in ecosystems generating environmental, economic and social costs. The …