Satellite Monitoring of Wildfire Impacts on the Conditions of Various Types of Vegetation Cover in the Federal Districts of the Russian Federation
- Authors: Bondur V.G.1, Tsidilina M.N.1, Cherepanova E.V.1
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Affiliations:
- AEROCOSMOS Research Institute of Aerospace Monitoring
- Issue: Vol 55, No 9 (2019)
- Pages: 1238-1253
- Section: Use of Space Information about the Earth Studying Catastrophic Natural Processes from Space
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0001-4338/article/view/148814
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143381909010X
- ID: 148814
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Abstract
The results of an analysis of the long-term series of remote sensing data from Terra/Aqua satellites (Burned Area MCD64A1 monthly product, the 6th collection) and Landsat satellites are presented to estimate the dynamics of of the vegetation cover condition caused by wildfires throughout the Russian Federation and in its individual regions. An approach to the use of remote sensing and geoinformatics methods for monitoring the impact of wildfires on the state of various types of vegetation cover without involving ground truth data is proposed. Potential for using a normalized burn ratio index to estimate the degree of vegetation damage and recovery process using low-resolution satellite data is demonstrated. It was established that the total area of burned vegatation over the country ranged from 68.40 to 234.46 thousand km2 per year for the period from 2002 till 2017. Seasonal peaks of fire activity, patterns of the spatial distribution of fire sources, and the main types of burned vegetation were identified for each of the eight federal districts of Russia. The accuracy of burned areas detection was estimated as 75–81% depending on the information product used according to the low (500 m) and average (30 m) spatial resolution data.
About the authors
V. G. Bondur
AEROCOSMOS Research Institute of Aerospace Monitoring
Author for correspondence.
Email: vgbondur@aerocosmos.info
Russian Federation, Moscow
M. N. Tsidilina
AEROCOSMOS Research Institute of Aerospace Monitoring
Email: vgbondur@aerocosmos.info
Russian Federation, Moscow
E. V. Cherepanova
AEROCOSMOS Research Institute of Aerospace Monitoring
Email: vgbondur@aerocosmos.info
Russian Federation, Moscow