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AN: B41B-0109    [Abstracts]
TI: Temporal Patterns of Fire in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
AU: * Murphy, K J
EM: kevinjmurphy2002@yahoo.com
AF: University Of Maryland College Park, 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AB: Fire is an essential landscape management tool extensively employed in West Kalimantan Indonesia to clear land and prepare agricultural areas. Under typically wet climatic conditions fires are easily controlled and seldom spread into adjacent land cover. However, during droughts induced by strong El Nino events, land management fires threaten vast areas of the landscape threatening endangered species habitat and releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. This study investigates temporal and spatial variations of fires detected by Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Along Track Scanning Radiometer between 2000 and 2004 against the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields and cultural features manually digitized from Landsat ETM+ scenes. Patterns of fire during phases of the El Ni¤o-La Ni¤a cycle are described and the impacts of fires on orangutan habitat are investigated.
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting