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Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data


TypeReport

Duration: January 2004 - on-going

The scientific community interested in atmospheric chemistry, gas emissions from vegetation fires and carbon cycling are currently demanding information on the extent and timing of biomass burning at the global scale.

Data credit(s): José Miguel Pereira (Tropical Research Institute), Dean Graetz (CSIRO-EOC), Luigi Boschetti (Joint Research Center), Daniela Stroppiana (Joint Research Center), Dmitry Ershov (International Forest Institute), Stéphane Flasse (Flasse consulting), Elisabetta Binaghi (Università dell'Insubria), Marta Maggi (Joint Research Center), Adiela Sousa (Departamento de Engenharia Florestal), Pascal Peduzzi (UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva), Kevin Tansey (Joint Research Center), Pietro Alessandro Brivio (CNR-IREA, Ist. Per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente), Jean-Marie Grégoire (Joint Research Center), Robert Fraser (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Adélia Silva (UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva)

GRID unit: Global Change and Vulnerability

UNEP region: Global

UNEP priorities:  Climate Change, Ecosystems Management, Disasters and Conflicts

 
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