Fire has been an important part of the Earth system for over 350 Myr. Humans evolved in this fiery world and are the only animals to have used and controlled fire. The interaction of mankind with fire is a complex one, with both positive and negative aspects. Humans have long used fire for heating, cooking, landscape management and agriculture, as well as for pyrotechnologies and in industrial ...

In this paper, the authors proposed a new work and process flow algorithm about remote sensing image data to forest fire identification and monitoring, which was greatly different with the traditional approaches. Therefore, a more useful context method was used to detect forest fire spots, banes on statistic rationale, meanwhile the cloud-contaminated pixels were rejected (if any) and the misju...

Extended Abstract Spatial Web Portal (SWP, Yang et al 2007) is used by the Earth science community in Earth science data sharing and exchanging. The SWP facilitates a large amount of geospatial resources, including text files, raw and post-processed data, and various geospatial web services. However, the popular utilizations also stand out problems of how to find needed data from a variety of g...

Fire is well recognized as a key Earth system process, but its causes and influences vary greatly across spatial and temporal scales. The controls of fire are often portrayed as a set of superimposed triangles, with processes ranging from oxygen to weather to climate, combustion to fuel to vegetation, and local to landscape to regional drivers over broadening spatial and lengthening temporal sc...

The existing and planned operational spaceborne sensors are not developed for hot event recognition. Administrative users of high temperature event information such fire department, local authorities, environmental agencies, management of forests and national parks need real time transmission of hot events parameters at a possibly earliest stage of their development. Spaceborne sensors systems ...