Fire danger observed from space

ML Pettinari, E Chuvieco - Surveys in Geophysics, 2020 - Springer
Biomass burning is one of the critical components of the Earth system, significantly affecting
atmospheric emissions and carbon budgets. Fires occurring in the interface between …

[HTML][HTML] Global fuel moisture content mapping from MODIS

X Quan, M Yebra, D Riaño, B He, G Lai, X Liu - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuel moisture content (FMC) of live vegetation is a crucial wildfire risk and spread rate driver.
This study presents the first daily FMC product at a global scale and 500 m pixel resolution …

Live fuel moisture content estimation from MODIS: A deep learning approach

L Zhu, GI Webb, M Yebra, G Scortechini, L Miller… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is an essential variable to model fire danger and
behaviour. This paper presents the first application of deep learning to LFMC estimation …

A radiative transfer model-based method for the estimation of grassland aboveground biomass

X Quan, B He, M Yebra, C Yin, Z Liao, X Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel method to derive grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) based
on the PROSAILH (PROSPECT+ SAILH) radiative transfer model (RTM). Two variables, leaf …

Corrigendum to: Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China

X Quan, Q Xie, B He, K Luo, X Liu - International journal of …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
As regulated by the 'fire environment triangle', three major forces are essential for
understanding wildfire danger:(1) topography,(2) weather and (3) fuel. Within this concept …

Effects of live fuel moisture content on wildfire occurrence in fire-prone regions over southwest China

K Luo, X Quan, B He, M Yebra - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Previous studies have shown that Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) is a crucial driver
affecting wildfire occurrence worldwide, but the effect of LFMC in driving wildfire occurrence …

Model-driven estimation of closed and open shrublands live fuel moisture content

G Lai, X Quan, M Yebra, B He - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is a crucial variable affecting the ignition potential of
shrublands. Different remote sensing-based models (either empirical or physical) have been …

Retrieval of live fuel moisture content based on multi-source remote sensing data and ensemble deep learning model

J Xie, T Qi, W Hu, H Huang, B Chen, J Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is an important index used to evaluate the wildfire risk and
fire spread rate. In order to further improve the retrieval accuracy, two ensemble models …

Assessment of the dual polarimetric sentinel-1A data for forest fuel moisture content estimation

L Wang, X Quan, B He, M Yebra, M Xing, X Liu - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fuel moisture content (FMC) is a crucial variable affecting fuel ignition and rate of fire
spread. Much work so far has focused on the usage of remote sensing data from multiple …

Improving field-scale wheat LAI retrieval based on UAV remote-sensing observations and optimized VI-LUTs

W Zhu, Z Sun, Y Huang, J Lai, J Li, J Zhang, B Yang… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Leaf area index (LAI) is a key biophysical parameter for monitoring crop growth status,
predicting crop yield, and quantifying crop variability in agronomic applications. Mapping the …