Overview
- Author provides methods to observe fire danger conditions and fire impacts using Earth Observation and GIS-technologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every summer, following the seasonal drought. As a result of changes in traditional land use practices, and the impact of recent climate warming, fires have more negative impacts in the last years, threatening lives, socio-economic and ecological values. The book describes the ecological context of fires in the Mediterranean ecosystems, and provides methods to observe fire danger conditions and fire impacts using Earth Observation and Geographic Information System technologies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems
Editors: Emilio Chuvieco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01754-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-01753-7Published: 04 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42558-5Published: 21 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-01754-4Published: 25 September 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 257
Topics: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis