Assessing vegetation fires activity and its drivers in West-Central Africa using MODIS and TRMM data

Author

Clerici, Nicola ; Boschetti, Luigi ; Eva, Hugh ; Grégoire, Jean-Marie

Author_Institution

Joint Res. Centre, Comm. of the Eur., Ispra

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

2087

Abstract

We analyzed fire regimes for the 2002-2003 dry season in West and Central Africa using active fire counts derived from MODIS and TRMM data. Spatial and temporal descriptors were extracted to characterize the fire regimes. Statistics on fire occurrences per land-cover class were derived using the JRC-GLC2000 map. Cluster analysis was applied to characterize regional fire regimes. The number of fires detected by the two satellite sensors is considerably different but showed a good agreement in their spatial distribution. The analyses conducted confirm previous investigations on global and regional datasets regarding African fire regimes. The study may provide valuable information for the understanding of Western and Central Africa fire regimes, and for supporting land-cover change studies

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric techniques; fires; vegetation mapping; AD 2002 to 2003; Central Africa fire regime; JRC-GLC2000 map; MODIS data; TRMM data; Western Africa fire regime; cluster analysis; dry season; land cover class; satellite sensors; vegetation fire activity; Aerodynamics; Africa; Biomass; Ecosystems; Fires; Infrared sensors; MODIS; Monitoring; Satellites; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370768

Filename

1370768