Burning Biomass in Mongolia

摘要

In 1996, the National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) began using NOAA - AVHRR data for fire monitoring in Mongolia. It expanded its detection technology with the addition of TERRA and AQUA MODIS data, giving it a spatial resolution of 250 m as of 2008, and developed a related methodology and technology for detection and monitoring of active fires and mapping of burned areas over Mongolia. Additionally, a geodatabase of existing thematic maps with scale of 1:1 million has been established and those maps can be used for integrated analysis with remotely sensed products in order to generate new outcomes as burned biomass in pastoral areas of Mongolia. This paper discusses remote sensing and GIS analysis of burned areas, calculation of burned biomass over Mongolian pasture lands and integration of results of comparison with some fire emission components.