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4 - C<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong>s<br />

Burnt area index using MODIA and ASTER data 213<br />

This paper shows the estimati<strong>on</strong> of burnt area in a large wildfire that took<br />

place during summer 2007 in Gran Canaria island (Spain), limiting the<br />

number of classes to the minimum, in order to check if a rapid assessment<br />

of the affected area with <strong>on</strong>ly <strong>on</strong>e ASTER or MODIS post-fire image is possible.<br />

The orographic complex effects in an island like this, make the ASTER<br />

derived indexes more suitable due to their better spatial resoluti<strong>on</strong>.<br />

Nevertheless, high errors of commissi<strong>on</strong> and omissi<strong>on</strong> are detected in some<br />

cases due to the special vegetati<strong>on</strong> characteristics of this test area. A<br />

future work under development will also analyze the error due to the pixel<br />

resoluti<strong>on</strong> in terms of a classificati<strong>on</strong> method based <strong>on</strong> object-oriented and<br />

neural networks.<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

This work has been supported by the “Ministerio de Educaci<strong>on</strong> y Ciencia”<br />

(Spain), under Project CGL2007-66888-C02-01/CLI.<br />

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GIS applicati<strong>on</strong>s to <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>Fire</strong> <strong>Management</strong>: <strong>Fire</strong> Effects Assessment.<br />

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