Fire on the Water Towers: Mapping Burn Scars on Mount Kenya Using Satellite Data to Reconstruct Recent Fire History
Mount Kenya is one of Kenya’s ‘water towers’, the headwaters for the country’s major rivers including the Tana River and Ewaso Nyiro River, which provide water and hydroelectric power to the semiarid region. Fires affect water downstream, but are difficult to...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-01-01
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Series: | Remote Sensing |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/2/104 |