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Title: Monitoring of forest fire risk conditions in Portugal with NOAA/NESDIS satellite-based Vegetation Health Index
Authors: Bugalho, Lourdes
Camara, Natália
Kogan, F.N
Keywords: Forest Fire Risk monitorization;Vegetation Health Index;vegetation stress;droughts
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Journal: http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/44517
Abstract: NOAA/NESDIS satellite-based Vegetation Health Index (VHI) was applied to study wildfire favourable environmental conditions for period 2001-2017.VHI consists of two terms: Vegetation Condition Index (VCI), and Temperature Condition Index (TCI), which reflect vegetation moisture conditions and vegetation thermal conditions. Joint analysis of drought conditions (VHI<40) and vegetation stress (VCI,TCI<40) on the one hand and burned area and number of fires on the other hand showed, that 88% of big fires in Portugal have relation with droughts or vegetation stress.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/44527
ISBN: 978-989-26-16-506 (PDF)
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-16-506_10
Rights: open access
Appears in Collections:Advances in forest fire research 2018

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