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Monitoring post-fire recovery of various vegetation biomes using multi-wavelength satellite remote sensing
Emma Bousquet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université
de Toulouse (CNES/CNRS/INRAE/IRD/UPS), 18 av. Edouard Belin, bpi 2801, 31401
Toulouse CEDEX 9, France
Arnaud Mialon
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université
de Toulouse (CNES/CNRS/INRAE/IRD/UPS), 18 av. Edouard Belin, bpi 2801, 31401
Toulouse CEDEX 9, France
Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université
de Toulouse (CNES/CNRS/INRAE/IRD/UPS), 18 av. Edouard Belin, bpi 2801, 31401
Toulouse CEDEX 9, France
Stéphane Mermoz
GlobEO, 31400 Toulouse, France
Yann Kerr
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université
de Toulouse (CNES/CNRS/INRAE/IRD/UPS), 18 av. Edouard Belin, bpi 2801, 31401
Toulouse CEDEX 9, France
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Pre- and post-fire values of four climate variables and four vegetation variables were analysed at the global scale, in order to observe (i) the general fire likelihood factors and (ii) the vegetation recovery trends over various biomes. The main result of this study is that L-band vegetation optical depth (L-VOD) is the most impacted vegetation variable and takes the longest to recover over dense forests. L-VOD could then be useful for post-fire vegetation recovery studies.
Pre- and post-fire values of four climate variables and four vegetation variables were analysed...
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