The study results demonstrate the potential use of remote sens- ing and Geographic Information System (GIS) in identifying forest fire prone areas in Manipur, southeastern part of Northeast India. Land use land cover (LULC), vegetation type, Digital elevation model (DEM), slope, aspect and ...
Forests in northern areas, including Russia, are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world. And this leads to longer fire seasons. In tropical locations, such as the Amazon, cutting down trees for agriculture and loggingpredominate. But the removal of tree cover dries out the land...
In Lebanon, forest fires recur annually between mid summer and the beginning of winter. According to the Lebanese civil defense statistics, a total number of 1413 forest fire events took place in 1997 alone. The Ministry of Agriculture estimated about three thousand burned hectares in the two yea...
Forest fire plays an important role in the landscape structure, composition, function and ecological integrity. The objectives of the present study are to prepare the forest burnt area map and to analyse fire prone areas in Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR), Andhra Pradesh, India ...
Participants received an initial training in S-L to design projects focused on different aspects of forest fires (environmental awareness, outreach/communication, fire prevention or post-fire restoration). These applied projects are formally integrated in the learning process via curriculum, which serve ...
2009). Thus, determining the functional response of the plant community by combining field and remote sensing approaches appears crucial, especially in areas prone to repeated fire events where not all the species are adapted. Our research hypothesis posits that varying fire severities (i.e., ...
Further development of the Forest and Land Fire Prevention Patrol Information System should address some challenges. Large fire-prone areas in Indonesia with different characteristics lead to dynamic user requirement changes. The database and system architecture should be designed to handle the new users...
Another major issue in fire prone regions is the Wildland-Urban-Interface (WUI), as wildfires affect urban areas more easily as a result of the usual practice of constructing buildings, infrastructure and homes near or in the vegetation zone (Fox et al., 2018; Sarricolea et al., 2020). ...
In implementing the above, APRIL Indonesia has invested over one million dollars during the past five years for specialised, light-weight, forest fire fighting pumps, hose and other water handling accessories. For fire patrols, early detection and rapid response, a dedicated helicopter ready to be...
In this study, we evaluated the relative importance of factors affecting flood, forest fire, and gully erosion using the random forest method. This method reliably determines the relative importance of controlling factors in hazard susceptibility applications53. Using the MDG method, we found that the...