Rosa Lasaponara,1 Tiziana Simoniello,1,2 Nicola Masini,3 Vincenzo Cuomo1,2
1Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale, CNR (Italy) 2Univ. degli Studi della Basilicata (Italy) 3Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali, CNR (Italy)
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Over the years, several satellite-based indicators have been developed for Fire Susceptibility Estimation (FSE) most of which are based on AVHRR data. Unfortunately, these indicators yield different results when applied to different ecosystems or geographic regions and this creates confusion concerning their effectiveness. This work aims at evaluating the performance of the existing AVHRR-based FSE methods. Such evaluation was performed in the Basilicata and Calabria Region by using NOAA-12,-14 summery imagery selected from a long time series acquired from 1995 to 1999. Fire susceptibility maps
obtained from the considered methods were compared to fire archives provided by the Italian National Forestry Service. The most satisfactory results were obtained from methods based on the cross analyses of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) with thermal channels.
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Rosa Lasaponara, Tiziana Simoniello, Nicola Masini, Vincenzo Cuomo, "Performance evaluation of AVHRR-based methods for the estimation of fire susceptibility in southern Italy," Proc. SPIE 5232, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology V, (24 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.513882