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Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every summer, following the seasonal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Chuvieco, Emilio (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Global Impacts of Fire
  • Eternal Flame: An Introduction to the Fire History of the Mediterranean
  • Fires and Landscape Conservation in Mediterranean Ecosystems
  • Mapping Fire Risk in Mediterranean Ecosystems of California: Vegetation type, Density, Invasive Species, and Fire Frequency
  • Fire Danger, Fire Detection, Quantification of Burned Areas and Description of Post-Fire Vegetation in the Central Area of Chile
  • Weather Factors and Fire Danger in the Mediterranean
  • Estimation of Fuel Conditions for Fire Danger Assessment
  • Impacts of Fire on Society: Extreme Fire Propagation Issues
  • Effects of Fire on Vegetation, Soil and Hydrogeomorphological Behavior in Mediterranean Ecosystems
  • Remote Sensing of Burn Severity
  • Human Factors of Fire Occurrence in the Mediterranean
  • Forest Fire Emissions and Air Pollution in Southern Europe
  • Forest Fires in the European Mediterranean Region: Mapping and Analysis of Burned Areas.