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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/65B339C5-0D68-405F-A324-4EDBDE6D326E | ||
| Year | 2025 | ||
| Type of Item | Diploma Work | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | Georgios-Alexandros Giakoumakis, "Comparison of satellite and ground-based burned area data on a prefecture level for Greece", Diploma Work, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2025 https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.103858 | ||
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Modern societies despite their quickening progress and the technological tools at their disposal, especially during the last decades, still find themselves facing the problem of forest fires. The consequences of such fires on an environmental, social and economical level are severe and ever increasing, despite that they were always a part of Mediterranean forests and ecosystems. Climate change is estimated to highly contribute to the development of these phenomena, increasing the risk as well as the impact of forest fires.The reasons that generate these forest fires can be either natural or human related. The activity, behavior and escalation of forest fires can be determined mainly from meteorological conditions as well as individual and geomorphological characteristics.During the starting point and the process of addressing forest fires, there has been a coordinated effort from government authorities during the last decades, to document the number and most importantly the scale of forest fires. At the same time, in a European level and within the scope of research, there has also been a coordinated effort from the European Space Agency (ESA) under CCI – Climate Change Initiative program to determine burned areas using specialized satellites (MODIS).The main purpose of this survey is the evaluation of these individual and distinct methods of collecting ground base data and the presentation of their results, regarding Greece and more specifically for each prefecture. By analyzing these data, results regarding their difference percentage of the methods are presented along with respective maps. At the same time an evaluation of these two respective methods is conducted, through the presentation of the correlation coefficients regarding both methods, to draw safer conclusions. The time period that is analyzed and evaluated on this survey spans between 2001 and 2020 and more specifically in three different periods.
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