Remote Sensing Modeling and Applications to Wildland Fires - Qu, John J.; Sommers, William; Yang, Ruixin; Riebau, Allen; Kafatos, Menas; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Research Needs and Programs -- Introduction of Wildland Fires -- Introduction of Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) -- Introduction of National Fire Plan -- Demographics Trends in the Eastern US and the Wildland Urban Interface: Implications for Fire Management -- Fire Weather, Climate and Air Quality for Eastern States -- A Review of Wildland Fire and Air Quality Management -- High-Resolution Numerical Models for Smoke Transport in Plumes from Wildland Fires -- Interaction between a Wildfire and a Sea-Breeze Front: Case Study and Idealized Numerical Simulations -- Estimates of Wildland Fire Emissions -- The GOFC/GOLD Fire Mapping and Monitoring theme: assessment and strategic plans -- Integrating remote sensing and surface weather-derived models to monitor the phenology of the terrestrial biosphere -- Fire Fuel Mapping in the National Park Service Northeast Region -- Remote Sensing Applications on Wildland Fires in the Eastern United States -- TBD -- Diurnal and Seasonal Cycles of Land Fires from TRMM Observations -- Fire Research in the New Jersey Pine Barrens -- An Accuracy Assessment of NFDRS dead fuel load estimates across North Carolina's Piedmont and Coastal Plain -- Numerical simulations of grassland fire behavior from the LANL - FIRETEC and NIST - WFDS models -- Physics-based Modeling of Wildland-urban Interface Fires -- Climate Change and Fire Impacts on Ecosystem Critical Nitrogen Load -- Edge Effects on Fuel Loading and Fire Spread in a Managed Northern Wisconsin Landscape -- The Need for Data Integration to Achieve Forest Sustainability: Modeling and Assessing the Impacts of Wildland Fire on Eastern Landscapes -- Fire spread regulated by weather, landscape structure, and management in Wisconsin hardwoods and New Jersey Pinelands.
Keywords: Natural disasters; Natural Hazards