Forest fire fuel through the lens of remote sensing: Review of approaches, challenges and future directions in the remote sensing of biotic determinants of fire behaviour

• Published in: Remote sensing of environment Vol. 255; p. 112282
• Main Authors: Gale, Matthew G., Cary, Geoffrey J., Van Dijk, Albert I.J.M., Yebra, Marta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 15.03.2021; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Bark; Biophysical modelling; environment; fire behavior; Fire behaviour models; Forest fires; Forest fuel; Forest management; Forests; Fuel mapping; Fuel structure; Fuel type; Fuels; fuels (fire ecology); Land management; Literature reviews; Live fuel moisture content; overstory; Position sensing; prediction; Remote sensing; risk; Risk taking; understory; Wildfire; Wildfire; Fuel mapping; Biophysical modelling; Live fuel moisture content; Forest fuel; Fire behaviour models; Fuel structure; Remote sensing; Fuel type

Forested environments are subject to large and high intensity unplanned fire events, owing to, among other factors, the high quantity and complex structure of fuel in these environments. Compiling accurate and spatially comprehensive fuel information is necessary to inform various aspects of land ma...