Greece Faced 9,500 Forest Fires This Year, Says Minister More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A man tries to extinguish a fire burning a house as a wildfire burns in Nea Penteli, Greece, August 12, 2024. REUTERS/Elias Marcou/File Photo ATHENS (Reuters) - About 9,500 forest fires, including one...
In the course of devastating fires in Greece and La Palma in 2009, a multi-temporal backscatter coefficient analysis of fire affected and unburned areas were performed. Within this comparison, the detected signal of VV and HH polarisations showed significantly higher values in images acquired after...
We are being terrorized by the media. Greece is not a country of forests. There are few. Because of that the "whole country" can't be "in flames". Most people in Greece are just watching it on TV when they come home from the beach, or the taverna or a day of shopping. As big...
In July, a series of wildfires close to Athens killed 99 people, the deadliest in Greece history1. In October, several fires in California were responsible for more than 85 casualties with the vast majority of these taking place in a single fire event in northern California (Camp Fire) that...
learning tools that show the spatial distribution of the full spectrum of hazards in a region2. Examples of areas where such multi-hazard evaluations have been performed include Greece (flooding depth, lateral erosion, earthquakes, and landslides)4, the United States (weather and climate hazards)5...
As research area has been chosen Pertouli - Trikala - Greece, because it is a University Forest and is used mainly for academicals research. The purpose of this paper is to use a model for making a GIS Fire Risk map, which will describe the fire potential of an area. This model will...
This paper describes an operational application of AVHRR satellite imagery in combination with the satellite-based land cover database CORINE Land Cover (CLC) for the comprehensive observation and follow-up of 10000 fire outbreaks and of their consequences in Greece during summer 2000. In the first...
The types of the vegetation burned were derived from the Forest Inventory of Greece [22] and were calculated with spatial tools included in the GIS platform (Calculate Geometry tool). The term “forests” has been used when natural forest types were burned. The term “reforestations” was used...
Consequently, the last years have witnessed many high intensity forest fires that have resulted in significant human and economic damages, making them potential catastrophes. For instance, Portugal (2005, 2017), Spain (2017), Greece (2017, 2018), Australia (2020), California (2021), and France...
Wildfire Effects on Soil Erosion Dynamics: The Case of 2021 Megafires in Greece. Agric. For. 2022, 68, 49–63. [CrossRef] 2. Silvestro, R.; Saulino, L.; Cavallo, C.; Allevato, E.; Pindozzi, S.; Cervelli, E.; Conti, P.; Mazzoleni, S.; Saracino, A. The Footprint of ...