Wildland fires dramatically affect forest ecosystems, altering the loss of their biodiversity and
their sustainability. In addition, they have a strong impact on the global carbon balance and …

The application of global open data remote sensing satellite missions in land monitoring and
conservation studies is in the state of rapid growth, ensuring an observation with high spatial …

Accurate and consistent broad-scale map** of fire severity is an important resource for fire
management as well as fire-related ecological and climate change research. Remote …

The ability to map fire severity is a requirement for fire management agencies worldwide.
The development of repeatable methods to produce accurate and consistent fire severity …

Complete and accurate burned area map data are needed to document spatial and
temporal patterns of fires, to quantify their drivers, and to assess the impacts on human and …

Satellite-derived spectral indices such as the relativized burn ratio (RBR) allow fire severity
maps to be produced in a relatively straightforward manner across multiple fires and broad …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing has limitations in acquiring images
before a forest fire, although burn severity can be analyzed by comparing images before and …

Fire severity is a key factor for management of post-fire vegetation regeneration strategies
because it quantifies the impact of fire, describing the amount of damage. Several indices …

Estimation of terrestrial carbon balance is one of the key tasks in the understanding and
prognosis of climate change impacts and the development of tools and policies according to …

Wildfires have increased in size and frequency in recent decades in many biomes, but have
they also become more severe? This question remains under-examined despite fire severity …