Overview
- Focus on large spatial scales, integrating top-down and bottom-up methodologies
- Chapters will include the latest geospatial and remote sensing tools and techniques
- Contributions from USA, Japan, India China, Taiwan, Korea, and other South/Southeast Asia
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling of Vegetation Fires
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollution
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About this book
Vegetation fires are prevalent in several regions of the world, including South/ Southeast Asia (S/SEA). Fire occurrence and spread are influenced by fuel type, topography, climate, weather, and lightning, among others. In S/SEA, human-initiated fires are responsible for most of the incidents in addition to natural factors. Through biomass burning, vegetation fires can emit large quantities of greenhouse gases and air pollutants such as CO2, CO, NOx, CH4, non-methane hydrocarbons, and other chemical species, including aerosols that can affect air quality and health at both local and regional scales. Moreover, biomass burning pollutants can travel long distances and impact regional climate. Therefore, quantifying vegetation fires and their impacts is critical at different spatial scales.
This book includes contributions from renowned researchers from the USA and South/ Southeast Asia on various fire-related topics. The contributions resultedfrom several international meetings and workshops organized in Asia as part of the South/ Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SARI) under the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program. The book is divided into three sections, each containing multiple contributions: a) Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling of Vegetation Fires, b) Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollution, and c) Air Pollution Modeling and Decision Support Systems. These sections are preceded by an introductory chapter by the editors that highlights the latest satellite-derived fire statistics and the current fire situation in S/SEA. This book will be a valuable resource for remote sensing scientists, geographers, ecologists, atmospheric, climate, environmental scientists, including policymakers, and all who wish to advance their knowledge on vegetation fires and emissions in South/Southeast Asia.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Krishna Prasad Vadrevu is a remote sensing scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. His research focuses on land cover and land-use change (LCLUC) studies, fires, and biomass burning emissions. He has more than 20 years of research experience in satellite remote sensing. He is currently serving as the Deputy Program Manager for the NASA LCLUC Program (lcluc.umd.edu) and leading the South/Southeast Research Initiative (www.sari.umd.edu).
Dr. Toshimasa Ohara is a scientist and Research Director at Center for Environmental Science (CESS) in Saitama, Japan. He has 33 years of research experience in air quality modeling, emission inventories, and pollution research. He is a lead developer for Regional Emission Inventory in Asia (REAS) and one of the highly cited researchers on the emissions. He is currently working on linking top-down and bottom-up approaches for emissions quantification from different sectors in Asia.
Dr. Christopher Justice is a Professor at the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has 40 years of research experience. His current research is on land cover and land-use change and global agricultural monitoring using remote sensing. He is an authority on satellite remote sensing of fires. He serves as Project Scientist for the NASA LCLUC Program, the Land Discipline Lead for the NASA MODIS and the Suomi-NPP VIIRS Science Team. He is the Co-Chair of the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring initiative (GEOGLAM), Chief Scientist for NASA HARVEST, and Chair of the international Global Observations of Forest and Land Use Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vegetation Fires and Pollution in Asia
Editors: Krishna Prasad Vadrevu, Toshimasa Ohara, Chris Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29916-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29915-5Published: 31 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29918-6Published: 01 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29916-2Published: 30 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 602
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 231 illustrations in colour
Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Natural Hazards, Computer Applications, Geography, general, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth System Sciences