Laxmi Goparaju from Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation (VENHF), along with Rama Chandra Prasad Pillulata from the Lab for Spatial Informatics, International Institute of Information Technology, Suresh Babu KV from the University of Alcala, and Hüseyin Bariş Tecimen from Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, have authored a research paper titled “Editorial: Forest fire emissions and their impact on global climate change” in the international journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. This is an open access article and can be accessed here. We congratulate the authors. The abstract is reproduced below:
The ever-increasing problem of forest fire risks has intrigued researchers globally to find a mechanism that can provide an early warning of forest fire incidents as well as assess the extent of spatial-temporal damage caused by them. Further information and data on its impacts would help in mitigating the disaster through advanced planning and management. The effects of forest fire have been known for a long time, but due to limited data, mitigation measures were always hampered. With the advancement of technology in the recent past with respect to high-resolution satellite data, a programming interface, and the development of mobile applications to a certain extent, it is now possible to predict forest fires and to study the impacts at local, regional, and global levels. Several open satellite data sets available from NASA, NOAA, and COPERNICUS have facilitated the quantification of various variables in near real time. Further the easy access to open-source data facilitated in the development of user-friendly web interfaces and APPS to continuously monitor the spatio-temporal changes caused as a result of forest fires on the ecosystem and on climate.
