Landsat Time Series Analysis with BFAST for Detecting Degradation of Thyme Shrublands by Fire on Lemnos Island
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data
2.3. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion and Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Land Cover Type | Month | Total | |||||||||||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | ||
Forest and semi-natural areas | 0.243 | 0.076 | 0.027 | 0.068 | 0.067 | 0.044 | 0.120 | 1.966 | 0.044 | 0.133 | 1.199 | 0.643 | 4.628 |
Agricultural areas | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.017 | 0.001 | 0.005 | 0.080 | 0.299 | 2.922 | 0.139 | 0.295 | 0.367 | 0.002 | 4.131 |
Wetlands | 0.012 | 0.071 | 0.015 | 0.047 | 0.009 | 0.015 | 0.000 | 0.027 | 0.022 | 0.178 | 0.481 | 0.118 | 0.993 |
Artificial surfaces | 0.003 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.007 | 0.002 | 0.007 | 0.001 | 0.025 | 0.017 | 0.000 | 0.069 |
Total | 0.258 | 0.153 | 0.059 | 0.119 | 0.082 | 0.146 | 0.421 | 4.922 | 0.206 | 0.630 | 2.062 | 0.763 | 9.821 |
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Vasios, G.K.; Alexoudaki, E.; Kaloveloni, A.; Troumbis, A.Y. Landsat Time Series Analysis with BFAST for Detecting Degradation of Thyme Shrublands by Fire on Lemnos Island. Fire 2025, 8, 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8080335
Vasios GK, Alexoudaki E, Kaloveloni A, Troumbis AY. Landsat Time Series Analysis with BFAST for Detecting Degradation of Thyme Shrublands by Fire on Lemnos Island. Fire. 2025; 8(8):335. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8080335
Chicago/Turabian StyleVasios, Georgios K., Eleftheria Alexoudaki, Aggeliki Kaloveloni, and Andreas Y. Troumbis. 2025. "Landsat Time Series Analysis with BFAST for Detecting Degradation of Thyme Shrublands by Fire on Lemnos Island" Fire 8, no. 8: 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8080335
APA StyleVasios, G. K., Alexoudaki, E., Kaloveloni, A., & Troumbis, A. Y. (2025). Landsat Time Series Analysis with BFAST for Detecting Degradation of Thyme Shrublands by Fire on Lemnos Island. Fire, 8(8), 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8080335