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FIRE AND THERMAL ANOMALY MONITORING IN LAOS USING MODIS AUTOMATIC NEAR REAL-TIME SYSTEM


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Author : Vivarad Phonekeo
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Disaster Type : Landslide
Document Type : Research Paper
Languange : en
Link : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267419498_FIRE_AND_THERMAL_ANOMALY_MONITORING_IN_LAOS_USING_MODIS_AUTOMATIC_NEAR_REAL-TIME_SYSTEM

Abstact :

Shifting cultivation is the big problem in Laos which links with poverty eradication. Therefore, the appplication of remote sensing and GIS technology to the study forest fire and slash-burn will bring great benefit to the rural development in Laos, in particularly in the area where the fire occurrence locations can not be identified, which is difficult for decision making for developmnet programs. The detection and allocation of the fire using satellite imagery will help to solve the problem of fire identification. In order to implement this, the authors have developed the automatic processing system using MODIS Fire prooduct generation as the core of the system to detect and allocate the geographical location of the active fir. The detected location will be overlaid with the administration and land use information which will be easy to the local officers to use for decision making for controlling shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn activities in the country. The detected information will be stored in the database which users can access online. The system is the extended version of the main MODIS Fire information System which was developed to monitor the fire occurrence in Southeast Asian region, including Laos. The extended system is developed specifically for Laos which will provide more detailed information.