A review of the applications of remote sensing in fire ecology

DM Szpakowski, JLR Jensen - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystem dynamics, land management, and global
processes. Understanding the dynamics associated with wildfire, such as risks, spatial …

Hyperspectral remote sensing of fire: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

S Veraverbeke, P Dennison, I Gitas, G Hulley… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fire is a widespread Earth system process with important carbon and climate feedbacks.
Multispectral remote sensing has enabled mapping of global spatiotemporal patterns of fire …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

A remote sensing approach to mapping fire severity in south-eastern Australia using sentinel 2 and random forest

R Gibson, T Danaher, W Hehir, L Collins - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate and consistent broad-scale mapping of fire severity is an important resource for fire
management as well as fire-related ecological and climate change research. Remote …

Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 based Forest fire burn area mapping using machine learning algorithms on GEE cloud platform over Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya

S Bar, BR Parida, AC Pandey - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The accurate quantitative and qualitative estimation of burn-area are crucial to analyze the
impact of fire on forest. The medium resolution optical-satellite imagery of Landsat-8 and …

Evaluating and comparing Sentinel 2A and Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) spectral indices for estimating fire severity in a Mediterranean pine ecosystem of …

G Mallinis, I Mitsopoulos, I Chrysafi - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The main purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between three field-based fire
severity indices (Composite Burn Index-CBI, Geometrically structure CBI, weighted CBI) and …

High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests

SA Parks, LM Holsinger, MH Panunto… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Wildland fire is a critical process in forests of the western United States (US). Variation in fire
behavior, which is heavily influenced by fuel loading, terrain, weather, and vegetation type …

Contemporary patterns of fire extent and severity in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA (1985–2010)

MJ Reilly, CJ Dunn, GW Meigs, TA Spies… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is an important disturbance in many forest landscapes, but there is heightened concern
regarding recent wildfire activity in western North America. Several regional‐scale studies …

Forest fire induced Natech risk assessment: A survey of geospatial technologies

M Naderpour, HM Rizeei, N Khakzad… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Forest fires threaten a large part of the world's forests, communities, and industrial plants,
triggering technological accidents (Natechs). Forest fire modelling with respect to …

Variability and drivers of burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest

E Whitman, MA Parisien, DK Thompson, RJ Hall… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Burn severity (ecological impacts of fire on vegetation and soils) influences post‐fire stand
structure and species composition. The spatial pattern of burn severity may compound the …