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Remote Sensing Modeling and Applications to Wildland Fires
Author | : John J. Qu,William Sommers,Ruixin Yang,Allen Riebau,Menas Kafatos |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2014-12-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9783642325304 |
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Scientists and managers alike need timely, cost-effective, and technically appropriate fire-related information to develop functional strategies for the diverse fire communities. "Remote Sensing Modeling and Applications to Wildland Fires" addresses wildland fire management needs by presenting discussions that link ecology and the physical sciences from local to regional levels, views on integrated decision support data for policy and decision makers, new technologies and techniques, and future challenges and how remote sensing might help to address them. While creating awareness of wildland fire management and rehabilitation issues, hands-on experience in applying remote sensing and simulation modeling is also shared. This book will be a useful reference work for researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the fields of fire science, remote sensing and modeling applications. Professor John J. Qu works at the Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science at George Mason University (GMU), USA. He is the Founder and Director of the Environmental Science and Technology Center (ESTC) and EastFIRE Lab at GMU.
Remote Sensing and Modeling Applications to Wildland Fires
Author | : John J. Qu,William Sommers,Ruixin Yang,Allen Riebau,Menas Kafatos |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fire management |
ISBN | : 7302288615 |
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Wildland Fire Danger Estimation and Mapping
Author | : Emilio Chuvieco |
Publsiher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9812791175 |
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The book presents a wide range of techniques for extracting information from satellite remote sensing images in forest fire danger assessment. It covers the main concepts involved in fire danger rating, and analyses the inputs derived from remotely sensed data for mapping fire danger at both the local and global scale. The questions addressed concern the estimation of fuel moisture content, the description of fuel structural properties, the estimation of meteorological danger indices, the analysis of human factors associated with fire ignition, and the integration of different risk factors in a geographic information system for fire danger management.
Geo information for Disaster Management
Author | : Peter van Oosterom,Siyka Zlatanova,Elfriede Fendel |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1412 |
Release | : 2006-02-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783540274681 |
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Geo-information technology can be of considerable use in disaster management, but with considerable challenge in integrating systems, interoperability and reliability. This book provides a broad overview of geo-information technology, software, systems needed, currently used and to be developed for disaster management. The text invites discussion on systems and requirements for use of geo-information under time and stress constraints and unfamiliar situations, environments and circumstances.
Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space
Author | : Frank J. Ahern,Johann Georg Goldammer,Christopher O. Justice |
Publsiher | : Kugler Publications |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9051031408 |
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Introduction Increasing conflagrations of forests and other lands throughout the world during the 1980s and 1990s have made fires in forest and other vegetation emerge as an important global concern. Both the number and severity of wildfires (accidental fires) and the application of fire for land-use change, seem to have increased dramatically compared to previous decades of the twentieth century. The adverse consequences of extensive wildfires cross national boundaries and have global impacts. Fire regimes are changing with climate variability and population dynamics. Satellite remote sensing technology has the potential to play an important role for monitoring fires and their consequences, as well as in operational fire management. In response to this need as well as to respond to other needs for more rapid progress in forest observation, in 1997 the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) initiated Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) as an international pilot project to test the concepts of an Integrated Global Observing System. The GOFC program is currently part of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS). GOFC was designed to bring together data providers and information users to make information products from satellite and in-situ observations of forests more readily available worldwide. Fire Monitoring and Mapping was formed as one of three basic components of GOFC. This book contains eighteen contributions authored by scientists who represent the most active international research and development institutions, aiming at coordinating and improving international efforts for user-oriented systems and products. These papers were initially presented at a GOFC Fire Workshop held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra. The volume is a contribution of the GOFC Forest Fire Monitoring and Mapping Implementation Team to the Interagency Task Force Working Group Wildland Fire of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).
Biomass Burning and Global Change Remote sensing modeling and inventory development and biomass burning in Africa
Author | : Joel S. Levine |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0262122014 |
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Global Biomass Burning provides a convenient and current reference on such topics as the remote sensing of biomass burning from space, the geographical distribution of burning; the combustion products of burning in tropical, temperate, and boreal ecosystems; burning as a global source of atmospheric gases and particulates; the impact of biomass burning gases and particulates on global climate; and the role of biomass burning on biodiversity and past global extinctions."--Pub. desc.
Wildland Fires and Air Pollution
Author | : Andrzej Bytnerowicz |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780080556093 |
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Wildland fires are one of the most devastating and terrifying forces of nature. While their effects are mostly destructive they also help with regeneration of forests and other ecosystems. Low-intensity fires clear accumulating biomass reducing risk of catastrophic crown fires and can be used as an effective management tool. This book presents current understanding of wildland fires and air quality as well as their effects on human health, forests and other ecosystems. in the first section of the book the basics of wildland fires and resulting emissions are presented from the perspective of changing global climate, air quality impairment and effects on environmental and human health and security. in the second section, effects of wildland fires on air quality, visibility and human health in various regions of the Earth are discussed. The third section of the book deals with complex issues of the ecological impacts of fires and air pollution in forests and chaparral in North America. The fourth section discusses various management issues facing land and fire managers which are related to wildfires, use of prescribed fires, and air quality. This section also presents various modeling systems used for describing fire dangers and behavior as well as smoke and air pollution predictions applied in the risk assessment analysis. The book concludes with a series of expert recommendations for wildland fire and atmospheric research.
Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management
Author | : Emilio Chuvieco,Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Departamento de Geografía |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:952508686 |
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