Updated Land Use and Land Cover Information Improves Biomass Burning Emission Estimates

• Published in: Fire (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 6; no. 11; p. 426
• Main Authors: Mataveli, Guilherme, Pereira, Gabriel, Sanchez, Alber, de Oliveira, Gabriel, Jones, Matthew W., Freitas, Saulo R., Aragão, Luiz E. O. C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.11.2023
• Subjects: Accuracy; Aerosols; Amazon; Amazonia; Artificial intelligence; Biomass; Biomass burning; Biomes; Biosphere; Brazil; Burning; Cerrado; Climate change; data collection; Deforestation; Dry matter; Ecosystems; Emission analysis; Emission inventories; Emissions; Emissions control; Estimates; forests; Global temperature changes; humans; inventories; Land cover; Land use; land use and land cover; land use and land cover maps; modelling; Remote sensing; Sensors; South America; Time series; time series analysis; South America; Brazil; Amazon Basin; Amazonia

Biomass burning (BB) emissions negatively impact the biosphere and human lives. Orbital remote sensing and modelling are used to estimate BB emissions on regional to global scales, but these estimates are subject to errors related to the parameters, data, and methods available. For example, emission...