Modeling Burned Areas in Indonesia: The FLAM Approach

Modeling Burned Areas in Indonesia: The FLAM Approach

Large-scale wildfires affect millions of hectares of land in Indonesia annually and produce severe smoke haze pollution and carbon emissions, with negative impacts on climate change, health, the economy and biodiversity. In this study, we apply a mechanistic fire model to estimate burned area in Ind...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrey Krasovskii, Nikolay Khabarov, Johannes Pirker, Florian Kraxner, Ping Yowargana, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Obersteiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-07-01
Series:Forests
Subjects:
wildfire model
burned area
tropical forest and peatland
Indonesia
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/7/437

Internet

http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/7/437

Similar Items