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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 18(4)

Integration of AWiFS and MODIS active fire data for burn mapping at regional level using the Burned Area Synergic Algorithm (BASA)

Federico González-Alonso A and Silvia Merino-de-Miguel B C
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A Remote Sensing Laboratory, Centro de Investigación Forestal – Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (CIFOR-INIA), Ctra. A Coruña, km 7.5, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.

B Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Forestal (EUIT Forestal), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, s/n, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.

C Corresponding author. Email: silvia.merino@upm.es

International Journal of Wildland Fire 18(4) 404-414 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF07081
Submitted: 18 June 2007  Accepted: 21 May 2008   Published: 29 June 2009

Abstract

The present paper presents an algorithm that synergistically combines data from four different parts of the spectrum (near-, shortwave, middle- and thermal infrared) to produce a reliable burned-area map. It is based on the use of a modified version of the BAIM (MODIS – Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer – Burned Area Index) together with active fire information. The following study focusses in particular on an image from the AWiFS (Advanced Wide Field Sensor) sensor dated 21 August 2006 and MODIS active fires detected during the first 20 days of August as well as ancillary maps and information. The methodology was tested in Galicia (north-west Spain) where hundreds of forest fires occurred during the first 20 days of August 2006. Burned area data collected from the present work was compared with official fire statistics from both the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and the Galician Forestry Service. The speed, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of this method suggest that it would be of great interest for use at both regional and national levels.

Additional keywords: BAIM, forest fires, Mediterranean basin, remote sensing.


Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Spanish National Geographic Institute (IGN) for helping us in the use of the CORINE Land Cover 2000 product and the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) for supplying Terra/Aqua MODIS active fire products. The anonymous reviewers are also thanked for their comments.


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