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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2020, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 123-133

Mapping of fire cycles in the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve

A.S. Plotnikova 1 , A.O. Kharitonova 1 
1 Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS, Moscow, Russia
Accepted: 06.03.2020
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2020-17-2-123-133
The fire regime of forest ecosystems determines the conditions for fire occurrence, distribution, and its long-term consequences. The fire cycle is one of the properties of fire regime, which is defined as the amount of time required to completely burn the forest area under study. Definition of fire cycle is important for climate change and long-term fire activity trends analysis as well as for evaluating the efficiency of fire fighting measures. The goal of this study was to map the fire cycles of the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve. We used the following input data: the Reserve fires history from the second half of the 19th century to 2014; fires anchor points detected by aviation and ground-based means of monitoring from 1987 to 2011; thematic map of terrestrial ecosystems created using Landsat satellite data (ETM+ and OLI) as of 2016. We highlight the main stages of mapping of fire cycles at the local level: definition of the boundaries of spatial units, calculation of both the total forest area and touched-by-fire area within the studied timespan within defined boundaries, and definition of fire cycles. We developed fire cycle maps for the main part of the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve for four time periods: 1850–1899, 1900–1951, 1952–1999, and 2000–2014. Regarding the period 2000–2014, we additionally analyzed the fire cycle map prepared by Greenpeace Russia. The results of present study allow tracking the identifying changes in fire cycles over the past 150 years. The maps analysis shows that the length of fire cycles is determined not only by forest type, but also by infrastructural accessibility of the area, including proximity to navigable rivers and the availability of the reserve status.
Keywords: fire cycle, forest fires, Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve, forest ecosystems
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