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Novel Approaches and Techniques for Understanding Vegetation Fires in South America.
- Source :
- Fire (2571-6255); Jul2023, Vol. 6 Issue 7, p275, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The authors concluded that the most reliable vegetation indices for monitoring post-fire vegetation recovery were the Leaf Chlorophyll Content Index (LCCI) and Normalized Difference Red-Edge and SWIR2 (NDRESWIR). The complexity of vegetation fires in South America is observed from two recent fire crises: the 2019 Amazonia fire crisis, which was mainly associated with deforestation [[1]], and the 2020 Pantanal fire crisis [[2]], which was triggered by unprecedented drought and heat wave events [[3], [5]]. Vegetation fires represent a major disturbance in the tropics, with South America notable for having both fire-sensitive (e.g., Amazonia and Atlantic Forest) and fire-prone (e.g., Cerrado and Pantanal) biomes. In a similar study also conducted in southern Ecuador, Maxwald et al. [[9]] identified the most reliable vegetation indices for post-fire vegetation monitoring, and analyzed vegetation recovery across different classes of fire severity. [Extracted from the article]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 25716255
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Fire (2571-6255)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 168589378
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6070275