Remotely-sensed indicators of burning efficiency of savannah and forest fires

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 3105-3118

  Lambin, E F ^a   Goyvaerts, K ^a   Petit, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE DETECTORS; GAS EMISSIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

FOREST FIRES;

REMOTE SENSING;

BURNING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FOREST FIRE; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA;

EID: 0041764317     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116021000021224     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. BOULVERT, Y., 1986, Carte phytogéographique de la République Centrafricaine, 1:1 000 000. Collection Notice explicative n° 104, ORSTOM, Institut Français de Recherche pour le Dévelopment en Cooperation, Paris.
2. CRUTZEN, P. J., and ANDREAE, M. O., 1990, Biomass burning in the Tropics: impact on atmospheric chemical and biogeochemical cycles. Science, 250, 1669-1678.
3. DELMAS, R. A., DRUILHET, A., CROS, B., DURAND, P., DELON, C., LACAUX, J. P., BRUSTET, J. M., SERÇA, D., AFFRE, C., GUENTHER, A., GREENBERG, J., BAUGH, W., HARLEY, P., KLINGER, L., GINOUX, P., BRASSEUR, G., ZIMMERMAN, J. M., GRÉGOIRE, J.-M., JANODET, E., TOURNIER, A., PERROS, P., MARION, TH., GAUDICHET, A., CACHIER, H., RUELLAN, S., MASCLET, P., CAUTENET, S., POULET, D., BOUKA BIONA, C., NGANGA, D., TATHY, J. P., MINGA, A., LOEMBA-NDEMBI, J., and CECCATO, P., 1999, Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants (EXPRESSO): an overview. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 30 609-30 624.
4. EHRLICH, D., GRÉGOIRE, J.-M., EVA, H. D., JANODET, E., and KOFFI, B., 1995, Fire detection, land-cover characterisation and burnt area estimation in the savannah-forest transition zone of Central Africa; EUR 16314 EN, European Commission, Luxemburg.
5. EVA, H., and LAMBIN, E. F., 1998a, Remote sensing of biomass burning in tropical regions: sampling issues and multisensor approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 64, 292-315.
6. EVA, H., and LAMBIN, E. F., 1998b, Burnt area mapping in Central Africa using ATSR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 3473-3497.
7. EVA, H., and LAMBIN, E. F., 2000, Fires and land-cover change in the tropics: a remote sensing analysis at the landscape scale. Journal of Biogeography 27, 765-776.
8. GOLDAMMER, J. G. (editor), 1990, Fire in the Tropical Biota (Berlin: Springer-Verlag).
9. GRÉGOIRE, J.-M., BARBOSA, P., DWYER, E., EVA, H., JONES, S., KOFFI, B., and MALINGREAU, J. P., 1996, Vegetation fire research at the Monitoring Tropical Vegetation Unit Product Availability, EUR 16433 EN, European Commission, Luxembourg.
10. 2 and other trace gases to the atmosphere from fires in the tropics, based on FAO statistics for the period 1975-1980. In Fire in the Tropical Biota, edited by J. G. Goldammer (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), pp. 440-462.
11. KOFFI, B., GRÉGOIRE, J.-M., MAHE, G., and LACAUX, J.-P., 1995, Remote sensing of bush fire dynamics in Central Africa from 1984 to 1988: analysis in relation to regional vegetation and pluviometric patterns. Atmospheric Research, 39, 179-200.
12. MAYAUX, P., JANODET, E., BLAIR-MYERS C., and LEGEAY-JANVIER, P., 1997. Vegetation map of Central Africa at 1:5000000, EUR 17322 EN, European Commission, Luxembourg.
13. MBOW, C., NIELSEN, T. T., and RASMUSSEN, K., 2000, Savanna fires in east-central Senegal: distribution patterns, resource management and perceptions. Human Ecology, 28, 561 583.
14. MCNAUGHTON, S. J., STRONACH, N. R. H., and GEORGIADIS, N. J., 1998, Combustion in natural fires and global emissions budgets. Ecological Applications, 8, 464-468.
15. MENAUT, J.-C., 1993, Effects des feux de savanne sur le stockage et l'emission du carbone et des elements-trace. Sécheresse, 4, 251 263.
16. MISTRY, J., 1998. Fire in the cerrado (savannas) of Brazil: an ecological review. Progress in Physical Geography, 22, 425-448.
17. NEPSTAD, D. C., VERÍSSIMO, A., ALENCAR, A., NOBRE, C., LIMA, E., LEFEBVRE, P., SCHLESINGER, P., POTTER, C., MOUTINHO, P., MENDOZA, E., COCHRANE, M., and BROOKS, V., 1999. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. Nature, 398, 505-508.
18. PEREIRA, J. M. C., 1999, A comparative evaluation of NOAA AVHRR vegetation indices for burned surface detection and mapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 39, 217 226.
19. PEREIRA, J. M. C., PEREIRA, B. S., BARBOSA, P., STROPPIANA, D., VASCONCELOS, M. J. P., and GREGOIRE, J. M., 1999, Satellite monitoring of fire in the EXPRESSO study area during the 1996 dry season experiment: active fires, burnt area, and atmospheric emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 30 701-30 712.
20. ROY, D. P., GIGLIO, L., KENDALL, J. D., and JUSTICE, C. O., 1999, Multitemporal active-fire based burn scar detection algorithm. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20, 1031-1038.
21. SEILER, W., and CRUTZEN, P. J., 1980, Estimates of gross and net fluxes of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere from biomass burning. Climatic Change, 2, 207-247.
22. TEILLET, P. M., EL SALEOUS, N., HANSEN, M. C., EIDENSHINK, J. C., JUSTICE, C. O., and TOWNSHEND, J. R. G., 2000. An evaluation of the global 1-km AVHRR land dataset. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1987 2021.