An international collaboration has compiled a global satellite database of the intensity of 23 million landscape fires between 2002 and 2013. (sciencedaily.com)
«One important next step is to distinguish between natural landscape fires, fires started accidentally by humans and fires deliberately started as part of land management,» said Andrew Scott, a professor at the Royal Holloway University of London and a co-author of the study. (sciencedaily.com)
University of Tasmania Professor of Environmental Change Biology David Bowman led an international collaboration — including researchers from the University of Idaho and South Dakota State University — to compile a global satellite database of the intensity of 23 million landscape fires used to identify 478 of the most extreme wildfire events. (sciencedaily.com)