Characterising bush fires in Australia's Top End using MODIS active fire observations

Stefan Maier; Andrew Craig Edwards; Jeremy Russell-Smith; C YATES

Characterising bush fires in Australia's Top End using MODIS active fire observations

Stefan Maier, Andrew Craig Edwards, Jeremy Russell-Smith, C YATES

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This study used MODIS active fire detections and associated fire radiative power estimates to characterise bush fires in the savanna region of Australia's Northern Territory. In contrast to other sensors MODIS has dedicated fire channels that rarely saturate over fires, enabling fire detections during the day and estimates of fire radiative power. Using number of day- and night-time fire detections it was possible to distinguish two phases of fire activity. The first phase, occurring in the early dry season, is dominated by low intensity management fires that are lit during the day and extinguish in the evening. In the late dry season, the second phase shows many high intensity fires which are burning through the night.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment
Editors	unknown
Place of Publication	unknown
Publisher	Unknown
Pages	-
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE 2011 34th): The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring - Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Duration: 10 Apr 2011 → 15 Apr 2011 Conference number: 2011 (34th)

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Conference	International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE 2011 34th)
Abbreviated title	ISRSE
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney, NSW
Period	10/04/11 → 15/04/11

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Characterising bush fires in Australia's Top End using MODIS active fire observations. / Maier, Stefan; Edwards, Andrew Craig ; Russell-Smith, Jeremy et al.
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings

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Characterising bush fires in Australia's Top End using MODIS active fire observations

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