Advances in Remote Sensing for Forest Fire Management
Technologies, Applications, Case Studies and Future Directions
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Carmen Quintano, Alfonso Fernández-Manso, José Fernández-Guisuraga, Leonor Calvo
- Language: English
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Description
Description
This is essential for graduate students, researchers, and professionals seeking to utilize remote sensing techniques to further their research and knowledge of forest fire management through cutting-edge remote sensing technologies and interdisciplinary insights.
Key features
Key features
- Provides a multidisciplinary approach from experts in remote sensing, ecology, and GIS, offering diverse and updated perspectives on forest fires
- Offers a theoretical foundation, presenting a robust basis on remote sensing principles and practical, global case studies for real-world applications
- Provides a clear presentation of complex ideas, ensuring easy understanding through logical organization and graphical support for a broad academic audience
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. The Growing Challenge of Forest Fires
2. Overview of the global wildfire scenario and its impacts on ecosystems
3. Fundamentals of remote sensing applied to wildfire studies
4. The evolution of wildfire monitoring techniques from traditional methods to advanced technological approaches
5. Ground validation of remote sensing wildfires and connections to modeling
6. The importance of integrating technology in wildfire management strategies
7. The drivers of Extreme wildfires
PART II: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS ACROSS THE FOREST FIRE MANAGEMENT CYCLE
8. Introduction to Forest Fires and Management Cycles: Overview of forest fire ecology, the significance of fire in ecosystem dynamics, and the need for integrated management strategies
9. Risk Assessment Through Remote Sensing: Predictive modeling, fuel mapping, and vulnerability analysis
10. Detection Technologies Satellite, aerial, and UAV-based detection; AI in fire detection. Monitoring Forest Fires in Real-Time Utilizing thermal imagery and real-time data analysis for fire tracking
11. Post-Fire Damage Assessment: burned area
12. Post-Fire Damage Assessment and Mapping: fire severity
13. Regeneration and Restoration: Guiding Principles and Practices. Insights into ecosystem resilience, restoration strategies, and the role of technology in monitoring regeneration. Case studies of successful restoration efforts guided by remote sensing data
14. Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI): Challenges and Strategies Analysis of WUI dynamics, urban planning strategies, and the use of remote sensing in developing effective fire prevention and mitigation approaches in vulnerable communities
15. Evaluation of the impact of forest fires on the ecosystem services of Mediterranean forest systems
16. Biomass burning emissions: quantification based on remote sensing
PART III: CASE STUDIES OF FOREST FIRE MANAGEMENT IN FIRE-PRONE AREAS AROUND THE WORLD
17. Live fuel moisture content and forest fires in Australian territory
18. Active fire detections in Mexico from Remotely Sensed data
19. Mapping Burned Areas of Brazilian Amazon based on Remote Sensing
20. Madagascar`s Burned area estimation using Remote Sensing
21. Machine learning and remote sensing data for mapping burned area in Italy
22. Patterns of burn severity of forest fires in North America
23. Fire severity across Chilean Mediterranean forest ecosystems
24. Australian megafires: impacts, attributes and future ramifications
25. Study of Portugal mega-fire wildfire events
PART IV: FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND CHALLENGES
26. Emerging Technologies and Their Potential Impact: AI- based applications to forest fire management
27. Challenges and Opportunities in Integrating New Technologies Addressing scalability, accessibility, and interoperability issues
28. A Vision for the Future of Forest Fire Management The role of technology in adaptive, proactive fire management strategies
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
CQ
Carmen Quintano
AF
Alfonso Fernández-Manso
Dr. Alfonso Fernández-Manso, a Forest Engineer from the University of Lleida, is a Professor of Applied Forest Fire Engineering since 2022. His research focuses on analyzing fire damage in forest ecosystems and human communities. With a background in over 20 research projects related to wildfire effects, he has led 18 projects funded by prestigious institutions such as the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and Junta de Castilla y León. Dr. Fernández-Manso has over 20 years of experience in esteemed global institutions dedicated to forest fire research, including the VIPER Laboratory at the University of California, ITC at the University of Twente, and INPE in Brazil.
JF
José Fernández-Guisuraga
Dr. José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of León and a member of the Applied Ecology and Remote Sensing (GEAT) research lab. His research focuses on utilizing remote sensing techniques to assess wildfire impacts on Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems and how changing wildfire regimes affect Mediterranean ecosystems' functioning. He has co-authored over 45 papers in JCR-indexed journals and has contributed to more than fifteen research projects, two of which he led as the principal investigator.
LC
Leonor Calvo
Dr. Leonor Calvo, a Full Professor in Ecology since 2020, holds a degree in Biology from the University of León. Her research interests focus on analyzing the effects of disturbances, particularly forest fires, on terrestrial ecosystems' structure and functioning at community and landscape scales. Dr. Calvo has been involved in over 30 research projects related to studying perturbation effects on terrestrial ecosystems, including plant community responses and regeneration mechanisms post-disturbance. She has led 13 projects funded by entities such as the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Junta de Castilla y León, and the Biodiversity Foundation. Additionally, Dr. Calvo has contributed as an "external expert" in the RUBICODE project, "Rationalising biodiversity conservation for ecosystem service provision in a changing World," supported by the European Commission.