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II - VALIDATION OF RS PRODUCTS FOR FIRE MANAGEMENT
ger. The 15% percentage of fires which occurred in areas classified as moderate
or low danger generally took place in forest areas and this was mainly
due to the fact that the understory and dead fuel are masked by the
canopy. The satisfactory results obtained for the study area suggests that
the MODIS-based model identified the main fire danger zone. In particular,
the integration of the fuel type/model map, with daily fuel moisture and
Greenness maps into a single index allows us to properly capture the spatial
and temporal variation of fire susceptibility.
Figure 1 - Fire danger maps obtained for the 2008 summer season (on the left for 15 June
2008 and on the right for the 15 July 2008) September). Palette indicates low to high danger
level from green to red, white denotes cloud area or bare soil after the grain harvesting.
References
Lanorte, A., Lasaponara, R., 2007. Fuel type characterization based on
coarse resolution MODIS satellite data. Forest@ 4(2), 235-243.
Lasaponara, R., 2005. Inter-comparison of AVHRR-based fire susceptibility
indicators for the Mediterranean ecosystems of southern Italy.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(5), 853-870.