Coal Fires in Northwest China. Detection, Monitoring, and Preduction using Remote Sensing Data.

摘要

Coal fires in China occur within a region that stretches over 5,000 km east-west and 750 km north-south. These fires cause an economic and environmental threat by making a significant contribution to the global CO2 budget. The studies made in this thesis can be divided into two parts. Part one is based on field work and laboratory analysis that includes the dating of the paleo coal fires; part two concerns remote sensing applications for the active coal fires.