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ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2023, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 292-301

Estimation of northern burnt forests mortality in the XXI century based on MODIS data on fire intensity

D.V. Lozin 1, 2 , E.A. Loupian 1 , I.V. Balashov 1 , S.A. Bartalev 1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
2 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Accepted: 06.05.2023
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2023-20-2-292-301
This paper presents estimates of forest mortality from fires that occurred in the northern territories in the 21st century, based on the analysis of fire burning intensity obtained from MODIS instruments installed on satellites Terra and Aqua. A brief analysis of fire distribution and forest mortality resulting therefrom is also presented in the paper both by year and by different territories (countries). The analysis shows that from 2002 to 2021, 70 659 fires were registered in Zone 60 (the area north of 60° N) and 5997 fires were registered in Zone AC (the area north of the Arctic Circle). Moreover, 33 892 fires in Zone 60 were registered from 2002 to 2011 and 36 767 fires from 2012 to 2021; 2395 fires were registered in Zone AC from 2001 to 2011 and 3602 fires from 2012 to 2021. Between 2002 and 2021, 102 million hectares of forest land were covered by fires in Zone 60 and 8 million hectares in Zone AC. At the same time, more than 22 million hectares of forests died in Zone 60 (they got the 5th grade of the average weighted category state in the final fire year), and over 2 million hectares died in Zone AC. Over 2002–2011, 7,015 thousand hectares of forests died in Zone 60 (1.2 % of all forest vegetation in the zone; an average of 19.6 % of the area affected by fire) and 15,372 thousand hectares of forests over 2012–2021 (2.6 and 23.3 % respectively); over 2002–2011, 641 thousand hectares of forests died in Zone AC (2.8 and 23.7 % respectively) and 1,379 thousand hectares of forests over 2012–2021 (1.9 and 26.5 % respectively). The paper also presents information on forest death by territories (countries) in the analyzed zones. The presented data made it possible to draw the following preliminary conclusions: over recent decades, there have been no significant changes in the number of fires in Zone 60. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that in 2019–2020, the number of fires in Zone AC increased drastically in Russia; in the second decade of the analyzed period an increase in forest death from fires in the analyzed zones in Russia was observed; over the study period, no trends were observed in the ratio of dead forests area and total forest area in the analyzed countries; the average percentage of dead forests for the entire study period is comparable in Russia, the United States and Canada, though it is significantly lower in Northern European countries; the same picture is observed in the ratio of dead forest area and fire affected area.
Keywords: remote sensing, wildfire, FRP, forest damage by fires, satellite monitoring, Arctic circle, Arctic zone
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