Southern Italy Burn Scar Mapping by MYME2 Procedure using IRS-P6 LISS3

The amount and frequency of occurrence of wildfires in southern Italy were exceptional during summer 2007. More than 7,000 major fire events are reported to have occurred from January to August 2007, for a total extent of burn surfaces exceeding 110,000 hectares (including all types of vegetation), half of which forested (vs. 12,621 hectares inventoried in the year 2006). The Calabria region, southern Italy, was the Italian hottest point for 2007, with 7,550 hectares of forest destroyed by the fire. Here, six scenes acquired by IRS-P6 LISS-3 on July 8^th, August 25^th, and September 18^th, 2007, are analysed in combination with two sets of Landsat 5-TM and Terra-ASTER scenes acquired in 2006 for the high resolution mapping of burn scars.