Assessment of air quality has been traditionally conducted by ground based monitoring, and
more recently by manned aircrafts and satellites. However, performing fast, comprehensive …

In the coming decades there will be increasing pressure on global food systems, and
agriculture will have the challenge to provide food security for a growing world population …

Uncontrolled open burning of unwanted rapeseed stems is often performed in China,
resulting in resource wastage and substantial air pollution. The pyrolysis of rapeseed stem …

The accurate quantitative and qualitative estimation of burn-area are crucial to analyze the
impact of fire on forest. The medium resolution optical-satellite imagery of Landsat-8 and …

Biomass burning (BB) is the second largest source of trace gases and the largest source of
primary fine carbonaceous particles in the global troposphere. Many recent BB studies have …

Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

A large body of information on emissions from the various types of biomass burning has
been accumulated over the past decade, to a large extent as a result of International …

Biomass burning injects many different gases and aerosols into the atmosphere that could
have a harmful effect on air quality, climate, and human health. In this study, a …

Biomass burning is widespread, especially in the tropics. It serves to clear land for shifting
cultivation, to convert forests to agricultural and pastoral lands, and to remove dry vegetation …

Denitrification refers to the dissimilatory re-duction, by essentially aerobic bacteria, of one or
both of the ionic nitrogen oxides (nitrate, NO3-, and nitrite, NO2) to the gaseous oxides (nitric …