Forest Fire Susceptibility Mapping of West Sikkim District, India using MCDA techniquesdoi:10.1007/s10668-024-05158-4Forest fire poses a major environmental hazard, to the extent of sometimes permanently damaging the forest ecology. The potential of human to repair nature is hampered by the ...
Appendix Table A2 reports the first stage results of the relationship between the log of upwind kabupaten fire season intensity and fire season PM\(_{2.5}\). We report the first stage F-stat for each regression reported in Table 3, noting that the first stages are identical for the respira...
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(see alsoshifting agriculture). Small-scale farmers clear forests by burning them and then grow crops in thesoilsfertilized by the ashes. Typically, the land produces for only a few years and then must be abandoned and new patches of forest burned. Fire is also commonly used to clear ...
Forest fire, uncontrolled fire occurring in vegetation more than 1.8 meters (6 feet) in height. While a forest fire is often seen as harmful, a number of forests are specifically fire-adapted, meaning the plants and animals are enhanced by or dependent o
MUMBAI, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Another forest fire broke out in Karadimatti and Kucchalu Reserve Forest of Thirthahalli sub-district in India's southwestern Karnataka late Monday. Spread over 20 hectares, the fire was doused by forest officials with the help of local villagers, media reports ...
Cloud-penetrating C-band synthetic aperture radar imagery acquired during two ERS-1/2 tandem missions (April 1996 and October 1997) was used in mapping burnt areas in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the 1997 Southeast Asia forest fire episode. Vegetated areas were classified by their low inter...
NEW DELHI, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Indian police have arrested a 30-year-old tour guide in connection with the forest fire in the southern state of Tamil Nadu that killed 10 trekkers. The massive fire broke out late Sunday evening when a group of nearly 40 people, mostly college students,...
This study performs a comparative evaluation of Frequency Ratio (FR), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and Fuzzy AHP (FAHP) modeling techniques for forest fire susceptibility mapping in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Locations of past forest fire events reported from November 2002 to July 2019...
The objective of the present review is to analyze and evaluate the most used and well-performing environmental forest fire danger rating systems and indices globally, aiming to the creation of an integrated forest fire danger system for Greece. The analy