Fuel loads and fuel type mapping
Series in Remote Sensing
4-5
By: Emilio Chuvieco, David Riaño, Jan W. Van Wagtendonk, and Felix Morsdof
Edited by: Emilio Chuvieco
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Abstract
Correct description of fuel properties is critical to improve fire danger assessment and fire behaviour modeling, since they guide both fire ignition and fire propagation. This chapter deals with properties of fuel that can be considered static in short periods of time: biomass loads, plant geometry, compactness, etc. Mapping these properties require a detail knowledge of vegetation vertical and horizontal structure. Several systems to classify the great diversity of vegetation characteristics in few fuel types are described, as well as methods for mapping them with special emphasis on those based on remote sensing images.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Fuel loads and fuel type mapping |
| Series title | Series in Remote Sensing |
| Series number | 4 |
| Chapter | 5 |
| ISBN | 978-981-238-569-7 |
| DOI | 10.1142/9789812791177_0005 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Year Published | 2003 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | World Scientific |
| Contributing office(s) | Western Ecological Research Center |
| Description | 24 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Wildland fire danger estimation and mapping: The role of remote sensing data (Series in Remote Sensing volume 4) |
| First page | 119 |
| Last page | 142 |
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