In the context of climate change, the occurrence of water stress in forest ecosystems, which
are solely dependent on precipitation, has exhibited a rising trend, even among species that …

Forest fire is a natural phenomenon in many ecosystems across the world. One of the most
important components of forest fire management is the forecasting of fire danger conditions …

Forest and rural fires are one of the main causes of environmental degradation in
Mediterranean countries. Existing fire detection systems only focus on detection, but not on …

Many applications exist within the fields of agriculture, forestry, land management, and
hydrologic assessment for routine estimation of surface energy fluxes, particularly …

The objective of this paper was to define indices based on reflectance measurements
performed by the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor for estimating water content of live …

Estimating the water status of vegetation is one of the most important elements in assessing
forest fire danger. In this paper, laboratory measurement confirmed a relationship between …

High-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing has a wide range of applications. In
this paper, we describe the different applications and requirements identified in a literature …

The term ecosystem health has generally been used to indicate the proper functioning of a
complex ecosystem. A healthy system would be one in which the biophysical processes are …

In Mediterranean forests fire danger assessment is of crucial importance for any fire
prevention policy, both at the local and global scale. The objective of this study is to model …

The potential for the combined use of microwave and optical data for crop management is
explored with the use of images acquired in the visible, near-infrared, and thermal spectrum …