Remote Sensing of Biomass Burning
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2020) | Viewed by 29911
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass burning emissions; burned area; fire seasonality; climate change; real-time monitoring; remote sensing
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Interests: remote sensing of aerosols; biomass burning emissions; trace gases and application of remotely sensed data to air quality monitoring and modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass burning in wildfires and prescribed fires is the combustion of organic matter, releasing energy stored by photosynthesis and generating trace gases including water vapor and smoke particles. It has a profound influence on ecosystem structure and function, climate system, regional socioeconomic conditions, and future land use planning. Smoke aerosol emissions released from biomass burning affect both local and global air quality, which have strong impacts on human health due to smoke inhalation, environmental pollution, and economy. Although considerable efforts have been devoted to detecting fire occurrences and quantifying biomass burning emissions over the last several decades, large uncertainties still remain in the current estimates of biomass burning, which leads to a significant influence on environmental modeling and forecasting.
This Special Issue aims to collect articles concerning new developments and methodologies, best practices and applications of remote sensing in fire detections, biomass burning estimates, and air quality monitoring. We invite you to submit your most recent advancements on all relevant aspects of biomass burning remote sensing using observations from Landsat, Sentinel-2, MODIS, VIIRS, and geostationary satellites, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Active fire detections and burned area estimates
- Biomass burning emissions at local and global scales
- Evaluation and validation of the estimation of biomass burning
- Application of biomass burning emissions for air quality monitoring and forecasting
- Comparison of biomass burning monitoring from different satellite sensors.
Dr. Shobha Kondragunta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Satellite data
- Active fire
- Burned area
- Biomass burning emissions
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