Wildland fire danger estimation and mapping: the role of remote sensing data

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 loc...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore World Scientific Pub. Co. c2003
Series:Series in remote sensing v. 4
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Online Access:FHN01
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Summary: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
Physical Description:xiv, 264 p. ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
ISBN:9789812791177

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