Highlighting Biome-Specific Sensitivity of Fire Size Distributions to Time-Gap Parameter Using a New Algorithm for Fire Event Individuation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Fire Data
2.2. Active Fire Clusters Individuation Algorithm
2.3. Sensitivity of Fire Size Distributions to the Time-Gap Parameter
3. Results
3.1. Sensitivity of Fire Size Distributions to the Time-gap Parameter
3.2. Performance of the Active Fire Clusters Individuation Algorithm
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
FSD | Fire size distributions |
FP | Fire Patch Unit |
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Time-Gap (Days) | Number of Active Fire Clusters | Fire Size Classes (km2) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1–5 | 5–10 | 10–20 | 20–50 | >50 | ||
2 | 2,101,171 | 65.86 | 31.09 | 2.27 | 0.60 | 0.16 | 0.02 |
8 | 1,900,092 | 62.15 | 33.50 | 3.24 | 0.86 | 0.22 | 0.03 |
14 | 1,764,628 | 59.48 | 34.98 | 4.10 | 1.13 | 0.27 | 0.04 |
Case Study | Country | Anthrome Class | Time-Gap (Days) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 8 | 14 | |||
(a) | Ukraine | Cropland | 46 | 44 | 44 |
(0.21) | (0.21) | (0.21) | |||
(b) | Sudan | Rangeland | 470 | 423 | 409 |
(0.35) | (0.37) | (0.39) | |||
(c) | Cambodja | Forests | 472 | 397 | 319 |
(0.25) | (0.32) | (0.38) | |||
(d) | China | Villages | 32 | 31 | 31 |
(0.15) | (0.16) | (0.16) | |||
(e) | Russia | Wildland | 129 | 56 | 56 |
(0.7) | (0.71) | (0.71) | |||
(f) | India (Punjab district) | Dense settlements | 774 | 480 | 401 |
(0.26) | (0.42) | (0.44) |
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Oom, D.; Silva, P.C.; Bistinas, I.; Pereira, J.M.C. Highlighting Biome-Specific Sensitivity of Fire Size Distributions to Time-Gap Parameter Using a New Algorithm for Fire Event Individuation. Remote Sens. 2016, 8, 663. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8080663
Oom D, Silva PC, Bistinas I, Pereira JMC. Highlighting Biome-Specific Sensitivity of Fire Size Distributions to Time-Gap Parameter Using a New Algorithm for Fire Event Individuation. Remote Sensing. 2016; 8(8):663. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8080663
Chicago/Turabian StyleOom, Duarte, Pedro C. Silva, Ioannis Bistinas, and José M. C. Pereira. 2016. "Highlighting Biome-Specific Sensitivity of Fire Size Distributions to Time-Gap Parameter Using a New Algorithm for Fire Event Individuation" Remote Sensing 8, no. 8: 663. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8080663