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Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, agriculture, air quality, arid regions, biomass, deforestation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, humidity, population density, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires
Atmospheric spectra reconstructed from interferometric measurements are susceptible to scene motion, which can be caused by changing environment or instrument jitter. This leads to a coupling between the time series of the modulated scene radiance and the interferogram collected…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, smoke management, Fourier Transform, remote sensing, interferometry, satellites, hyperspectral imaging, spectrometer, spacecraft, Jitter, Impact
The dynamics and structure of the phytomass and production of an undisturbed mesotrophic dwarf shrub-sphagnum phytocenosis and one burned by fire have been compared. The net primary production (NPP) of both sites of phytocenoses in the postpyrogenic period is estimated by direct…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Russia, C - carbon, remote sensing, fire management, watershed management, peat bogs, Mesotrophic Mire, productivity, carbon emissions
Tropical peatland fires play a significant role in the context of global warming through emissions of substantial amounts of greenhouse gases. However, the state of knowledge on carbon loss from these fires is still poorly developed with few studies reporting the associated mass…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, C - carbon, climate change, drainage, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, fire management, watershed management, peatlands, tropical regions, peat fires, carbon loss, climate change, fires, Indonesia, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, tropical peatlands, land-cover change, Southeast Asia, peat fires, Indonesia, forest, soil, vegetation, Algorithm, severity
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Models, Logistics, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, Asia, India, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, vegetation, Algorithm, wildfire, tropics
The 2015 fire season and related smoke pollution in Indonesia was more severe than the major 2006 episode, making it the most severe season observed by the NASA Earth Observing System satellites that go back to the early 2000s, namely active fire detections from the Terra and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire intensity, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, droughts, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, fire management, land use, smoke management, Indonesia, biomass burning, haze, pollution
We present a study focusing on detection and initial quantitative estimates of ethylene (C2H4) in observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), a Fourier transform spectrometer aboard the Aura satellite that measures thermal infrared radiances with high…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, flame length, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, ozone, remote sensing, fire management, Ethylene, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, satellite remote sensing
Wildfires are important contributors to atmospheric aerosols and a large source of emissions that impact regional air quality and global climate. In this study, the regional and nearfield influences of wildfire emissions on ambient aerosol concentration and chemical properties…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, wildfires, Oregon, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, biomass burning emissions, Organic Aerosol, Mass-Spectrometer, high resolution, trace gases, chemical composition, particulate matter, mixing ratios
Fire and herbivory are the two consumers of above-ground biomass globally. They have contrasting impacts as they differ in terms of selectivity and temporal occurrence. Here, we integrate continental-scale data on fire and herbivory in Africa to explore (i) how environmental…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, wildfires, Africa, grazing, greenhouse gases, herbivory, mammals, CH4 - methane, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, wildlife management, savannas, Fire - Grazer Interactions, Savannah Determinants, greenhouse gas emissions
In this study, we explored the relationships between the satellite-retrieved fire counts (FC), fire radiative power (FRP) and aerosol indices usingmulti-satellite datasets at a daily time-step covering ten different biomass burning regions in Asia. We first assessed the…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Asia, Laos, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, vegetation surveys, fire management, smoke management, vegetation fires, absorbing aerosols, Smoke Plume Heights
The lack of independent, quality-assured field data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating and advancing wildland fire models. To rectify this, scientists and technicians convened in the southeastern United States in 2008, 2011 and 2012 to collect wildland fire data in…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, Florida, Georgia, energy, military lands, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, fire model evaluation, remote-piloted aircraft system
We revisited long-term observations of PM2.5 at ground-based stations in Japan during 2001-2012 to examine possible impacts of Siberian wildfires on regional air quality. Exceedances of Japan's air quality standard for daily mean concentration (35 mg m-3) were observed several…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire intensity, wildfires, Asia, Japan, Russia, Siberia, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, PM2.5, forest fire, biomass burning, Siberia
A total number of 20,212 fire hot spots were recorded by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument over Greece during the period 2002-2013. The Fire Radiative Power (FRP) of these events ranged from 10 up to 6000 MW at 1 km resolution, and…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Europe, Greece, fire management, smoke management, fire smoke, injection height, Smoke Dispersion Modeling, Firehub
The paper discusses the main uncertainties of wild-land fire emission estimates used in the AQMEII-II case study. The wild-land fire emission of particulate matter for the summer fire season of 2010 in Eurasia was generated by the Integrated System for wild-land Fires (IS4FIRES…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, Europe, fire management, smoke management, fire emission uncertainty, IS4FIRES, FRP - Fire Radiative Power
Past studies suggest that forest fires contribute significantly to the formation of ozone in the troposphere. However, the emissions of ozone precursors from wildfires, and the mechanisms involved in ozone production from boreal fires, are very complicated. Moreover, an…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, ozone, resprouting, Russia, Siberia, Asia, fire management, forest management, boreal forests
The complexity of analyzing and predicting smoke plumes that originate from forest fire events and impact populated regions of southern Ontario motivates the innovative application of analytical techniques including trajectory-based receptor modeling for spatial source…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, remote sensing, Ontario, Canada, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, PM2.5, remote sensing, near-real-time, sQTBA, long-range atmospheric transport
Estimating population exposure to particulate matter during wildfires can be difficult because of insufficient monitoring data to capture the spatiotemporal variability of smoke plumes. Chemical transport models (CTMs) and satellite retrievals provide spatiotemporal data that…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, lightning caused fires, smoke behavior, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management
To secure the long-term use of prescribed fire as a land management tool. The Nature Conservancy's Lake Wales Ridge Program has developed the Critical Smoke Dispersal Area (CSDA) GIS data layer for conservation sites associated with the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida, USA.…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, conservation, GIS, Lake Wales Ridge, Florida, fire management, land use planning, smoke management, Florida, GIS, Lake Wales Ridge, land-use planning, smoke management
The Amazon basin is a hot spot of anthropogenically-driven biomass burning, accounting for approximately 15% of total global fire emissions. It is essential to accurately measure these fires for robust regional and global modeling of key environmental processes. Here we have…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, smoke management, AOD - aerosol optical depth, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, AERONET - Aerosol Robotic Network
Crop-residue burning plays an important role in regional air quality and global climate change. The North China Plain, the largest winter wheat production district in China, experiences extensive crop fires during harvest seasons. Traditional methods to estimate emissions from…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: cropland fires, fire frequency, wildfires, agriculture, air quality, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, China, Asia, fire management, forest management, crop residue, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, North China Plain, emission estimates
Smoldering peat fires in Indonesia are responsible for large quantities of trace gas and particulate emissions. However, to date no satellite remote sensing technique has been demonstrated for the identification of smoldering peat fires. Fires have two distinct combustion phases…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, air quality, gases, particulates, remote sensing, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, Landsat, fire eetection, peat fire, smoldering, flaming, Indonesia
From the text ... ''GIS and mapping tools are playing an ever-increasing role in our day-to-day work. We use GIS and mapping tools for fuels treatment planning and monitoring as well as for communication and record keeping. We also utilize many models that incorporate both our…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prescribed fires (escaped), wildfires, GIS, Noble, C, Florida, fire management, forest management
Forest fires are a significant source of air pollution in Asia. In this study, we integrate satellite remote sensing data and ground-based measurements to infer fire-air pollution relationships in selected regions of Vietnam. We first characterized the active fires and burnt…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, vegetation surveys, Vietnam, Asia, fire management, forest management, active fires, biomass burning, atmospheric variables, particulate matter concentration, Vietnam
The past decade marked record high air pollution episodes in Indonesia. In this study, we specifically focus on vegetation fires in Palangkaraya located near a Mega Rice Project area in Indonesia. We analyzed various gaseous air pollution data such as particulate matter (PM10),…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, wildfires, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, forest management, haze, peat fire, air pollutants, photochemical smog, PM10, MODIS
A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. The United Nation International Strategy for Disaster Reduction estimates that between 3 and 4 million km2 are affected by wildfire annually, with 18,000…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, health factors, remote sensing, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Europe, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, wildfires, exposure, assessment, wildfire emissions, health effects, inventory, Mediterranean region, air pollutants