Spring fires in Russia: results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery
Human-induced fires play a crucial role in transforming landscapes and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Russia is a country where human-induced fires are widespread and form distinctive spring and summer burning cycles. However, spring fires are not well documented and it is unclear which l...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:75dee0c4abec4c31be1791ada7ea0c3e 2023-09-05T13:17:49+02:00 Spring fires in Russia: results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery Igor Glushkov Ilona Zhuravleva Jessica L McCarty Anna Komarova Alexey Drozdovsky Marina Drozdovskaya Vilen Lupachik Alexey Yaroshenko Stephen V Stehman Alexander V Prishchepov 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3287 https://doaj.org/article/75dee0c4abec4c31be1791ada7ea0c3e EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3287 https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac3287 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/75dee0c4abec4c31be1791ada7ea0c3e Environmental Research Letters, Vol 16, Iss 12, p 125005 (2021) open burning crowd-sourcing land use abandoned lands drivers remote sensing Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3287 2023-08-13T00:37:02Z Human-induced fires play a crucial role in transforming landscapes and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Russia is a country where human-induced fires are widespread and form distinctive spring and summer burning cycles. However, spring fires are not well documented and it is unclear which land-cover types are associated with the spread of spring fires. Using Sentinel-2 optical satellite imagery, a wall-to-wall spring burned area data set for 1 January to 15 May 2020 was created for Russia (excluding the Arctic) using a participatory crowdsourcing digitizing approach on an online platform developed specifically for this application. The 2020 spring fire product had a producer accuracy of 85% and user accuracy of 92%. Approximately 13.38 million ha, comprising 1.8% of the study area, were mapped as burned, with the majority of the 2020 spring burned areas in Siberia. Our spring-fire product revealed five times more burned area estimates compared to the burned area estimates from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) MCD64 product. We also found high variability of burned area per active fire pixel across regions of Russia, when compared to MODIS and visible infrared imaging radiometer suite active fire data. Spring fires started to increase from the end of February and reached their maximum by the end of March through the middle of April. Spring fires were associated with arable lands and grasslands as land-cover types, except Siberia, where spring fires were most common in deciduous and needle-leaved forests, followed by arable lands. While spring fires were associated with croplands and grasslands, an estimate for Central Russia showed approximately 75% of spring fires occurred on abandoned agricultural lands. Our study demonstrated the suitability of optical Sentinel-2 imagery for spring fire mapping and the great utility of a participatory mapping approach for fast and accurate mapping as well as engagement of the community. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Environmental Research Letters 16 12 125005 |
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Human-induced fires play a crucial role in transforming landscapes and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Russia is a country where human-induced fires are widespread and form distinctive spring and summer burning cycles. However, spring fires are not well documented and it is unclear which land-cover types are associated with the spread of spring fires. Using Sentinel-2 optical satellite imagery, a wall-to-wall spring burned area data set for 1 January to 15 May 2020 was created for Russia (excluding the Arctic) using a participatory crowdsourcing digitizing approach on an online platform developed specifically for this application. The 2020 spring fire product had a producer accuracy of 85% and user accuracy of 92%. Approximately 13.38 million ha, comprising 1.8% of the study area, were mapped as burned, with the majority of the 2020 spring burned areas in Siberia. Our spring-fire product revealed five times more burned area estimates compared to the burned area estimates from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) MCD64 product. We also found high variability of burned area per active fire pixel across regions of Russia, when compared to MODIS and visible infrared imaging radiometer suite active fire data. Spring fires started to increase from the end of February and reached their maximum by the end of March through the middle of April. Spring fires were associated with arable lands and grasslands as land-cover types, except Siberia, where spring fires were most common in deciduous and needle-leaved forests, followed by arable lands. While spring fires were associated with croplands and grasslands, an estimate for Central Russia showed approximately 75% of spring fires occurred on abandoned agricultural lands. Our study demonstrated the suitability of optical Sentinel-2 imagery for spring fire mapping and the great utility of a participatory mapping approach for fast and accurate mapping as well as engagement of the community. |
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Igor Glushkov Ilona Zhuravleva Jessica L McCarty Anna Komarova Alexey Drozdovsky Marina Drozdovskaya Vilen Lupachik Alexey Yaroshenko Stephen V Stehman Alexander V Prishchepov |
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Igor Glushkov Ilona Zhuravleva Jessica L McCarty Anna Komarova Alexey Drozdovsky Marina Drozdovskaya Vilen Lupachik Alexey Yaroshenko Stephen V Stehman Alexander V Prishchepov |
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Spring fires in Russia: results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery |
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Spring fires in Russia: results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery |
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Spring fires in Russia: results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery |
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Spring fires in Russia: results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery |
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