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The combine harvesting technology which has become common in the rice-wheat system in India leaves behind large quantities of straw in the field for open residue burning, and Punjab is one such region where this is regularly happening. This becomes a source for the emission of…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, chemistry, disturbance, fire management, fire size, gases, India, leaves, mosaic, remote sensing, statistical analysis, suppression, taxonomy, burned patches, decision-tree classifier, knowledge-based classification, thermal band
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, croplands, energy, fire frequency, fire management, grasslands, Great Plains, particulates, radiation, range management, remote sensing, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Measurements of total ozone column and solar UV radiation under different atmospheric conditions are needed to define variations of both UV and ozone and to study the impact of ozone depletion at the Earth's surface. In this study, spectral and broadband measurements of UV-B…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, dust, fire frequency, gases, India, natural areas management, ozone, radiation, remote sensing, tropical regions, UV index, aerosols, ozone, biomass burning, TUV model
This two-part series investigates the emission and transport of biomass burning aerosol (or particulate matter) across the Top End of the Northern Territory or Australia. In Part I, Meyer et al. [2008. Biomass burning emissions over northern Australia constrained by aerosol…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Australia, biomass, biomass burning, brush fires, distribution, fire management, fire scar analysis, fuel loading, mountainous terrain, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, radiation, remote sensing, statistical analysis, wind, bushfire emissions, TAPM, aerosol optical depths, Modis data, air quality modelling, air quality in northern territory, atmospheric radiative transfer, radiative forcing efficiency
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor, and burned area. This study…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Arizona, Arkansas, biomass, biomass burning, combustion, coniferous forests, cover, cover type, deciduous forests, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, grasslands, hardwood forests, heavy fuels, Idaho, leaves, litter, Louisiana, moisture, Montana, needles, Oregon, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, shrubs, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires, biomass burning emissions, particulate matter, multiple satellite instruments, GOES, near real time
In this study, we used fire count datasets derived from Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) satellite to characterize spatial patterns in fire occurrences across highly diverse geographical, vegetation and topographic gradients in the Indian region. For characterizing the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass burning, cropland fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, ignition, India, montane forests, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fires, spatial patterns, point pattern analysis, vegetation fires, India
Plume dispersion models may improve assessment of the health effects associated with forest fire smoke, but they require considerable expertise in atmospheric and fire sciences to initialize and evaluate. Products from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, decay, fire management, fire size, forest management, health factors, Idaho, Montana, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wildfires, forest fire smoke, dispersion modeling, MODIS products, public health
This paper presents results of the AQL2004 project, which has been developed within the GOFC-GOLD Latin American network of remote sensing and forest fires (RedLatif). The project intended to obtain monthly burned-land maps of the entire region, from Mexico to Patagonia, using…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire scars, NBR - Normalized Burn Ratio, remote sensing, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, biomass burning, South America, burn area index, Latin America, air quality, Argentina, biomass, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, cover, croplands, Cuba, deforestation, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, Mexico, Patagonia, savannas, statistical analysis, Venezuela, wildfires
Satellite remotely sensed data of fire disturbance offers important information; however, current methods to study fire severity may need modifications for boreal regions. We assessed the potential of the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) and other spectroscopic indices…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: black spruce, CBI - composite burn index, Picea mariana, spectroscopic index, air quality, boreal forest, C - carbon, coniferous forests, crown fires, disturbance, fire case histories, elevation, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, ground fires, mortality, organic matter, organic soils, overstory, Picea, remote sensing, soils, topography, wildfires
Resolving environmental impacts caused by the wildland–urban interface (WUI) expansion such as wildlife habitat fragmentation, or increased fire risk entails an accurate delineating of WUI boundary and its dynamics prediction. This study identified WUIs throughout the 11 states…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire suppression, Florida, fragmentation, Kentucky, Georgia, land management, landscape ecology, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, population density, remote sensing, rural communities, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, South Carolina, statistical analysis, Tennessee, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, Virginia, water quality, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Emissions of aerosol from biomass burning in northern Australia are globally significant, yet existing estimates of their magnitude are essentially unconstrained by observation. This two-part series (see Part II by Luhar et al. [2008. Biomass burning emissions over northern…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Australia, biomass, biomass burning, brush fires, C - carbon, distribution, fire danger rating, fire management, fire scar analysis, fuel loading, Northern Territory of Australia, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, spot fires, statistical analysis, tropical regions, western Australia, bushfire emissions, fire scars, hotspots, TAPM, Modis data, aerosol loading, air quality in northern territory, Top End