Fire on the Water Towers: Mapping Burn Scars on Mount Kenya Using Satellite Data to Reconstruct Recent Fire History

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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Main Authors: Mary C. Henry, John K. Maingi, Jessica McCarty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-01-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
fire
Kenya
MODIS
Landsat
dNBR
active fire
burned areas
Africa
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/2/104

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