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Every year land fires burn millions of hectares. Besides natural phenomena, which are actually responsible for the minority of fire events, human activities are causing most of world’s land fires. Fires associated with particular climatic conditions such as drought and wind, when combined with a consistent vegetation “fuel”, can easily degenerate into exceptional fire events like those that occurred in South East Asia in ′97–′98 and in South America in the Spring of ′98.
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Buongiorno, A., Arino, O., Zehner, C. (2003). Monitoring Fires with European Remote Sensing Satellite, ERS-2: The “Rush ATSR Fire Product” Demonstration. In: Zschau, J., Küppers, A. (eds) Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55903-7_100
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