Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-125-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-125-2018
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10 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 10 Jan 2018

Satellite observations for describing fire patterns and climate-related fire drivers in the Brazilian savannas

Guilherme Augusto Verola Mataveli, Maria Elisa Siqueira Silva, Gabriel Pereira, Francielle da Silva Cardozo, Fernando Shinji Kawakubo, Gabriel Bertani, Julio Cezar Costa, Raquel de Cássia Ramos, and Viviane Valéria da Silva

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Orbital remote sensing showed that the Cerrado was the second/first biome for the occurrence of hotspots and burned area (BA), which were higher in the dry season and in the savanna land use and are tending to decrease. Spatial analysis showed that values for the entire biome can hide patterns and that there is a 2- to 3-month lag between precipitation and hotspots/BA, while minimum VCI and maximum hotspots/BA occur in the same month. VCI indicates the susceptibility of vegetation to ignition.
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