Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Archibald, S; Frost, PDate:Nov 2008Fires 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
Author:Vhengani, L; Frost, P; Lai, C; Booi, N; Van den Dool, R; Raath, WDate:Jul 2015Wild 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
Author:McFerren, G; Frost, PDate:May 2009This 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
Author:Tsela, PL; Van Helden, P; Frost, P; Wessels, Konrad J; Archibald, SDate:Jul 2010The 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