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Mildrexler, Zhao, Heinsch, Running
The timing, location, and magnitude of major disturbance events are currently major uncertainties in the global carbon cycle. Accurate information on the location, spatial extent, and duration of disturbance at the continental scale is needed to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Li, Fraser, Jin, Abuelgasim, Csiszar, Gong, Pu, Hao
This paper presents an evaluation of advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR)-based remote sensing algorithms for detecting active vegetation fires [Li et al., 2000a] and mapping burned areas [Fraser et al., 2000] throughout North America.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Zhu
In recent years, requirements for consistent and operational burn mapping, using remote sensing means, have been mostly designed to provide support to land management in the field. However, this has ignored a perhaps more appropriate area of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Soja, Stackhouse, Shugart
Boreal regions are particularly significant because these are the regions that are predicted to experience some of the largest temperature increases from climate change. Additionally, this is where the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon resides…
Year: 2003
Type: Document