DocumentCode :
2121910
Title :
Monitoring of forest fires in far east Russia
Author :
Kawano, K. ; Iwabuchi, H. ; Kudoh, J.
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
Volume :
4
fYear :
2002
fDate :
2002
Firstpage :
2060
Abstract :
Forest fires result in loss of large quantities of forest resources, and promote global warming. In far east Russia, forest fires occur every year, and greatly influence the Earth´s environment. The temporal analysis of NOAA AVHRR images is effective for monitoring the global change. We analyzed a number of hot spots and aerosols using NOAA AVHRR images for ten years in far east Russia. The year with most hot spots was 1998 and the generating places of the fires were seashore parts. Most fires occurred in summer every year. Since a lot of smoke occurs in a hot spot, the quantity of aerosol has also increased in summer. There were few hot spots in June 1998 because there was much precipitation. We consider that there is a correlation between the precipitation and the number of hot spots, because precipitation in 1998 was less than an average year and the number of hot spots was more than an average year.
Keywords :
atmospheric precipitation; fires; vegetation mapping; Earth environment; NOAA AVHRR images; Russia; Siberia; aerosol; forest fire monitoring; forest resources; global change; global warming; hot spots; precipitation; seashore; smoke; Aerosols; Change detection algorithms; Data analysis; Earth; Fires; Global warming; Image analysis; Monitoring; Radiometry; Satellite broadcasting;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026444
Filename :
1026444
Link To Document :
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