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International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 29, 2008 - Issue 8
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Remote Sensing Letters

A MODIS assessment of the summer 2007 extent burned in Greece

Luigi Boschetti Department of Geography, University of Maryland, 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20740Correspondence[email protected]
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David Roy Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007
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Paulo Barbosa European Commission – DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Land Management and Natural Hazards, INFOREST Project, Via E. Fermi, TP 261, Ispra (Va), I‐21020, Italy
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Roberto Boca European Commission – DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Land Management and Natural Hazards, INFOREST Project, Via E. Fermi, TP 261, Ispra (Va), I‐21020, Italy
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Chris Justice Department of Geography, University of Maryland, 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20740
Pages 2433-2436 | Received 15 Nov 2007, Accepted 12 Dec 2007, Published online: 25 Mar 2008
 
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Abstract

Devastating fires affected Greece in the summer 2007, with the loss of more than 60 human lives, the destruction of more than 100 villages and hundreds of square kilometres of forest burned. This Letter presents a map of the extent burned and the approximate day of burning in Greece mapped by the MODIS burned area product for 22 June to 30 August 2007 and the burned areas mapped independently by the European Forest Fires Information Service (EFFIS). The characteristics of the two datasets, and an evaluation of the areas burned comparing the MODIS and EFFIS data for the same temporal interval are described.

Acknowledgements

This work was funded by NASA Earth System Science grant NNG04HZ18C and by the European Commission's FOREST action of the Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit.

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