Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

Fire danger observed from space

ML Pettinari, E Chuvieco - Surveys in Geophysics, 2020 - Springer
Biomass burning is one of the critical components of the Earth system, significantly affecting
atmospheric emissions and carbon budgets. Fires occurring in the interface between …

Towards an integrated approach to wildfire risk assessment: when, where, what and how may the landscapes burn

E Chuvieco, M Yebra, S Martino, K Thonicke… - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a review of concepts related to wildfire risk assessment, including the
determination of fire ignition and propagation (fire danger), the extent to which fire may …

[HTML][HTML] Global fuel moisture content mapping from MODIS

X Quan, M Yebra, D Riaño, B He, G Lai, X Liu - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuel moisture content (FMC) of live vegetation is a crucial wildfire risk and spread rate driver.
This study presents the first daily FMC product at a global scale and 500 m pixel resolution …

Empirical models for spatio-temporal live fuel moisture content estimation in mixed mediterranean vegetation areas using sentinel-2 indices and meteorological data

JM Costa-Saura, Á Balaguer-Beser, LA Ruiz… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is an input factor in fire behavior simulation models highly
contributing to fire ignition and propagation. Developing models capable of accurately …

Convergence in critical fuel moisture and fire weather thresholds associated with fire activity in the pyroregions of Mediterranean Europe

VR de Dios, ÀC Camprubí, N Pérez-Zanón… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildfires are becoming an increasing threat to many communities worldwide. There has
been substantial progress towards understanding the proximal causes of increased fire …

Live fuel moisture content estimation from MODIS: A deep learning approach

L Zhu, GI Webb, M Yebra, G Scortechini, L Miller… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is an essential variable to model fire danger and
behaviour. This paper presents the first application of deep learning to LFMC estimation …

Specific leaf area and vapour pressure deficit control live fuel moisture content

A Griebel, MM Boer, C Blackman, B Choat… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is an important precondition for wildfire activity, yet it
remains challenging to predict LFMC due to the dynamic interplay between atmospheric and …

[HTML][HTML] SAR-enhanced mapping of live fuel moisture content

K Rao, AP Williams, JF Flefil, AG Konings - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Assessing wildfire risk presents several challenges due to uncertainty in fuel flammability
and ignition potential. Live fuel moisture content (LFMC)-the mass of water per unit dry …

Drought-related leaf functional traits control spatial and temporal dynamics of live fuel moisture content

RH Nolan, B Foster, A Griebel, B Choat… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large forest fires generally occur when the moisture content of fuels is low. For live fuels, our
understanding of the physiological basis of variation in moisture content has recently …