Novel Approaches and Techniques for Understanding Vegetation Fires in South America

Fire (Jul 2023)

Affiliations

Guilherme Mataveli: Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos 12227-010, SP, Brazil
Gabriel de Oliveira: Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
Renata Libonati: Department of Meteorology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22290-140, RJ, Brazil
Celso H. L. Silva-Junior: Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasília 70863-520, DF, Brazil
Liana O. Anderson: National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disaster, São José dos Campos 12247-016, SP, Brazil

Abstract

Vegetation fires represent a major disturbance in the tropics, with South America notable for having both fire-sensitive (e [...]