Mapping tropical peatlands combustion from satellite remote sensing data /

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2021

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Sofan, Parwati

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The detection of fires based on satellite remote sensing mostly misses small and smoldering fires in tropical peatland environments. Moderate spatial resolution imagery at 20-30 m from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 satellites was explored to overcome this problem, while lower spatial resolution 375 m data from VIIRS, a source of daily global active fire data, was optimised to better represent peatland fire information. The significant contribution of this work, within the field of satellite-based fire detection, was the development of a new prototype, Tropical Peatland Combustion Algorithm (ToPeCAl), from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 to detect peatland fires in Indonesia. Moreover, a new technique to optimise global fire data from VIIRS was established through multitemporal analysis and spatial buffering to aid the efficient ground monitoring of peatland fires for disaster management agencies.

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University of South Australia. UniSA STEM.
UniSA STEM

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Thesis (PhD(Environmental Science))--University of South Australia, 2021.

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Copyright 2021 Parwati Sofan.

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1 ethesis (xxv, 211 pages) :
colour illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180)

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