Characterization of forest recovery from fire using Landsat and SAR data

Author

Sun, Guoqing ; Rocchio, Laura ; Masek, Jeffrey ; Williams, Darrel ; Ranson, K. Jon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Geogr., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

24-28 June 2002

Firstpage

1076

Abstract

The Forest fire during May 6-June 4, 1987 in Northeastern China burned 1.14 million hectares of forest and nearly 25 million cubic meters of timber. Landsat (5 and 7) and radar data (ERS and JERS-1) in combination with field measurements, were analyzed in terms of forest destruction and recovery and the results were evaluated. Temporal Landsat data enabled the identification of burned regions and the characterization of forest recovery, but sensitivity after 10 years was gradually lost. While the 1993 (and later) C-band SAR data from ERS cannot identify the fire scars, the 1997 JERS-1 L-band data can be used to characterize the burned area.

Keywords

forestry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; 400 to 2500 nm; Asian white birch; Betula dahurica; Betula platyphylla; C-band; China; Dahurian arch; Dahurian birch; David poplar Populus davidiana; IR; JERS-1; L-band; Landsat; Larix gmelii; Mongolian oak; Mongolian pine; Pinus sylvestris; Quercus mongolica; SAR; burned area; burned regions; characterization; destruction; fire; fire scar; forest fire; forestry; geophysical measurement technique; infrared; land surface; multispectral remote sensing; radar remote sensing; recovery; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; visible; wildfire; Biomass; Calibration; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Fires; Geography; L-band; Radiometry; Remote sensing; 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.2002.1025780

Filename

1025780