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Satellite derived multi-year burned area perimeters within the national parks of Italy 217
peratures and drier conditions make the Southern regions of the country
more susceptible to fire ignition and spread although the two main causes
of vegetation fires are arson and careless.
The figure shows burned perimeters identified in the available satellite
images for each year between 2001 and 2005 in the Aspromonte and
Cilento Parks.
Burned area maps for period 2001-2005 over Aspromonte (left) and Cilento (right).
On the background is the distribution of forest and agriculture/pasture land
cover classes derived from the Corine Land Cover map. Fire monitoring and
mapping in National Parks is important since they are established to protect
natural (forest) resources.
Burned area in the Aspromonte and Cilento Parks for the vegetated land cover classes.
Burning can significantly vary from year to year as in the case of
Aspromonte where we estimates 6.5 and 17.8 hectares of burned surface in
2002 and 2004, respectively. Also the distribution of the total area among
the land cover classes can vary. In 2001 in Aspromnte more than 50% of
the total burned area was mapped in forest (121.88 ha) whereas in 2005
the most affected land covers were grassland and shrubland (134.36 ha,
49% of the total). In the case of Cilento the smallest amount of burned sur-