Community owned solutions for fire management in tropical ecosystems: case studies from Indigenous communities of South America

J Mistry, BA Bilbao, A Berardi - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fire plays an increasingly significant role in tropical forest and savanna ecosystems,
contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and impacting on biodiversity. Emerging research …

Remote sensing techniques in monitoring post-fire effects and patterns of forest recovery in boreal forest regions: A review

T Chu, X Guo - Remote Sensing, 2013 - mdpi.com
The frequency and severity of forest fires, coupled with changes in spatial and temporal
precipitation and temperature patterns, are likely to severely affect the characteristics of …

Fire economy and actor network of forest and land fires in Indonesia

H Purnomo, B Shantiko, S Sitorus, H Gunawan… - Forest Policy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Forest and land fires are a recurrent phenomena in Indonesia and little progress has been
made in reducing their occurrence. The mineral and peat fire in 2015 burnt 2.6 million …

[HTML][HTML] Global forest area disturbance from fire, insect pests, diseases and severe weather events

P van Lierop, E Lindquist, S Sathyapala… - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Reliable global data on forest degradation and disturbances due to fire, insect pests,
diseases and severe weather are important to understand ecosystem health and condition …

Assessment of k-nearest neighbor and random forest classifiers for map** forest fire areas in central portugal using landsat-8, sentinel-2, and terra imagery

AP Pacheco, JAS Junior, AM Ruiz-Armenteros… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest fires threaten the population's health, biomass, and biodiversity, intensifying the
desertification processes and causing temporary damage to conservation areas. Remote …

[HTML][HTML] Remote sensing of swidden agriculture in the tropics: A review

N Jiang, P Li, Z Feng - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation …, 2022 - Elsevier
The evolution and transformations of swidden agriculture closely relate to ongoing studies of
carbon budget, biological diversity, ecosystem services, indigenous wellbeing, and ethnic …

Beyond slash‐and‐burn: The roles of human activities, altered hydrology and fuels in peat fires in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

JE Goldstein, L Graham, S Ansori… - Singapore Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Near‐annual landscape‐scale fires in Indonesia's peatlands have caused severe air
pollution, economic losses, and health impacts for millions of Southeast Asia residents …

Overlap** Land Claims Limit the Use of Satellites to Monitor No‐Deforestation Commitments and No‐Burning Compliance

DLA Gaveau, R Pirard, MA Salim, P Tonoto… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide many businesses have recently pledged to sourcing agricultural and timber
products exclusively from deforestation and fire‐free supply chains. Geoinvestigations …

Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon

RD Garrett, TA Gardner, TF Morello, S Marchand… - Ecology and …, 2017 - JSTOR
Tropical forests continue to be plagued by the dual sustainability challenges of deforestation
and rural poverty. We seek to understand why many of the farmers living in the Brazilian …

Forest and land fires are mainly associated with deforestation in Riau Province, Indonesia

HA Adrianto, DV Spracklen, SR Arnold, IS Sitanggang… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Indonesia has experienced extensive land-cover change and frequent vegetation and land
fires in the past few decades. We combined a new land-cover dataset with satellite data on …