Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not recent phenomena and the impacts are not always negative. However, evidence suggests that fires are becoming more frequent and there is a l...
The scientific community interested in atmospheric chemistry, gas emissions from vegetation fires, and carbon cycling is currently demanding information on the extent and timing of biomass burning at the global scale. In fact, the area and type of vegetation that is burned on a monthly or annual basis are two of the parameters that provide the greatest uncertainty in the calculation of gas and aerosol emissions...
The goal of this work was to develop methodologies for burned area mapping at 1 km resolution using SPOT-VEGETATION (VGT) images from tropical (Southeastern Africa and Brazil), temperate (Iberian Peninsula) and boreal (Eastern Siberia / Northeastern China) regions. For each study area seven months of daily images were used in order to map the areas burned during the entire fire season. Linear discriminant analy...
Technical Report - Global Burnt Area 2000
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