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Fire monitoring

Author: Frost, P Date: 2011 Fires kill and injure hundreds of people in South Africa each year, and is also responsible for damage to property and diseases such as athma due to smoke inhalation. The Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) was started in 2003 as a service ... Read more
Managing the changing risk of fire in the South African landscape

Author: Van Wilgen, BW ; Archibald, SA ; Frost, P Date: Nov 2008 Fires are a natural and common feature of many of South Africa's landscapes. They are necessary for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems and for biodiversity, but they also do extensive damage to crops, plantations, houses and livestock, and ... Read more
Managing the changing risk of fire in the South African landscape

Author: Van Wilgen, BW ; Archibald, S ; Frost, P Date: Nov 2008 Fires are a natural and common feature of many of South Africa's landscapes. The research has three main goals namely, to quantify the nature of the risks associated with vegetation fires, to assess how these risks may change in future and ... Read more
Multitemporal burnt area mapping using Landsat 8: merging multiple burnt area indices to highlight burnt areas

Author: Vhengani, L ; Frost, P ; Lai, C ; Booi, N ; Van den Dool, R ; Raath, W Date: Jul 2015 Wild fires may be beneficial to some ecological functions, however their negative impacts far exceed their benefits. This is because wildfires are a threat to the natural environment, wild life and their carbon emissions contribute to green ... Read more
Southern African advanced fire information system

Author: McFerren, G ; Frost, P Date: May 2009 This paper concerns the development of the South African Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS). Researchers describe a use case of wildfires causing electricity transmission lines to be adversely affected. This use case provided the rationale ... Read more
Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000): wet season campaigns

Author: Otter, LB ; Scholes, RJ ; Dowty, P ; Privette, J ; Caylor, K ; Ringrose, S ; Mukelabai, M ; Frost, P ; Hanan, N ; Totolo, O ; Veenendaal, EM Date: Mar 2002 The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000) involved two wet season and one dry season field campaigns. This paper reports on the wet season campaigns. The first was conducted at five sites along the Kalahari Transect in ... Read more
The utility of satellite fire product accuracy Information-perspectives and recommendations from the Southern Africa fire network

Author: Roy, DP ; Trigg, S N ; Bhima, R ; Brockett, BH ; Dube, OP ; Frost, P ; Govender, Natasha ; Le Roux, Jaco ; Neo-Mahupeleng, G ; Norman, M ; Virgilo, S Date: Jul 2006 This correspondence gives Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNet) perspectives on the utility of satellite fire product accuracy information, drawing on two main sources: insights gained during SAFNet’s six years of working together, and relevant ... Read more
Validation of the MODIS burned-area products across different biomes in South Africa

Author: Tsela, PL ; Van Helden, P ; Frost, P ; Wessels, Konrad J ; Archibald, S Date: Jul 2010 The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) time-series data afford the remote sensing community a unique opportunity to investigate the frequency and distribution of fires. Previous research that validated the MODIS burned area ... Read more
Vegetation structure characteristics and relationships of Kalahari woodlands and savannas

Author: Privette, JL ; Tian, Y ; Roberts, G ; Scholes, RJ ; Wang, Y ; Caylor, KK ; Frost, P ; Mukelabai, M Date: Mar 2004 The Kalahari Transect is one of several International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) transects designed to address global change questions at the regional scale, in particular by exploiting natural parameter gradients ( Koch et al., ... Read more

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