Fires in Indonesia, 1997: A remote sensing perspective

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 479-485

  Legg, Christopher A ^a   Laumonier, Yves ^a  

^a EU FIMP   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; WILDFIRE;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0032748026     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Lee, T.F. and Tag, P.M. 1990. Improved detection of hotspots using the AVHRR 3.7 micron channel. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 71, 1722-1730.
2. Justice, C. and Dowty, P. (eds). 1994. IGBP-DIS satellite fire detection algorithm workshop technical report. IGBP-DIS working paper No. 9. 88 pp.
3. Malingreau, J.P., Stephens. G. and Fellows, L. 1985. Remote sensing of forest fires: Kalimantan and North Borneo in 1982-83. Ambio 14, 314-321.
4. Malingreau, J.P., Jones. S.H., Dwyer, E. and Pinnock, S. 1996. Regional vegetation fire patterns in south and south-east Asia. A satellite based assessment. Conference on Transboundary Pollution and the Sustainability of Tropical Forests. Asean Institute of Forest Management, Malaysia, December 1996.
5. Kennedy, P.J., Belward, A.S. and Gregoire, J.-M. 1994. An improved approach to fire monitoring in West Africa using AVHRR data. Int. J. Remote Sensing 15, 2235-2255.
6. The assistance of staff from the EU Forest Fire Prevention and Control Project in Palembang, the JICA NOAA receiving station in Bogor and the GTZ receiving station in Samarinda is gratefully acknowledged. Counterpart staff in the Ministry of Forestry assisted with downloading and geometric correction of SPOT digital quick-look images. N. Jewell of the ODA Indonesia Forest Management Project assisted with initial processing of NOAA data. Numerous web-sites on the Internet, listed in Table 1 of this paper, provided extremely valuable multi-sensor data during October and November 1997.
7. First submitted 23 March 1998. Accepted for publication after revision 12 November 1998.