Spatial and temporal distribution pattern of fires in China using MODIS data

Author

Qin, Xian-Lin ; Li, Zeng-Yuan ; Zhang, Zi-Hui

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Forest Resource Inf. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Forestry, Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

331

Lastpage

334

Abstract

The spatial and temporal distribution pattern of fire is very important to protect environment and resources. In this paper, the spatial and temporal distribution pattern of fires has been studied by using MODIS image and GIS Techniques. The statistic analysis and GIS spatial analysis method have been used. The results showed there are three high density fire regions from spatial and temporal. One is in Daxing´anling forest area of china, where has been taken place many large forest fires during Apr. 15 to June 1 or Sep. 20 to Oct. 20 in past ten years. One is Guangdong province in south of china, most of fires belong to farming fire during November. 1 to March 30. The other is Yunnan province, which in southwest of China, there are many small forest fires during November 1 to May 15 next year.

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysical image processing; statistical analysis; vegetation; Daxing´anling forest area; GIS spatial analysis method; Guangdong province; MODIS image; Yunnan province; china; farming fire; forest fires; high density fire regions; spatial distribution pattern; statistic analysis; temporal distribution pattern; Fires; Geographic Information Systems; MODIS; NASA; Production; Roads; Spatial resolution; Fires; MODIS; Spatial and temporal distribution pattern;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5649277

Filename

5649277