Estimating spectral separability of satellite derived parameters for burned areas mapping in the Calabria region by using SPOT-Vegetation data

摘要

In the Mediterranean regions, fires are considered a major cause of land degradation. Every year, around 45,000 forest fires break out in the Mediterranean basin causing the destruction of about 2.6 million hectares (FAO, 2001). in Italy, as in other countries of the Mediterranean Basin, a small number of fires generally destroy a large percentage of the total burned areas every year. In these cases, the use of coarse resolution satellite sensors appears to be very useful for the discrimination of burned areas.