Forest Fires in the Russian Federation: 9 May 2000
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
9 May 2000
Starting with the forest fire season 2000 the GFMC will expand its services in providing remote sensing data of forest fires in the Russian Federation.
First, the GFMC will continue to show the NOAA AVHRR satellite image composites s published by the Aerial Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service Avialesookhrana of the Federal Forest Service of Russia (Fig.1).
Fig.1. This NOAA AVHRR composite of 8 May 2000 was generated at 15:47 GMT and used for this composite the satellite NOAA 12 and 14. The red squares indicate regions of active fires. (Source: The satellite maps containing fire information can be accessed under “Cloudiness Maps” at http://nffc.infospace.ru/engl/main.htm)
Second, selected fire occurrence maps are prepared daily by the Russian GFMC correspondent Dr. Anatoly Sukhinin, Fire Laboratory of the Sukachev Institute of Forest, Karsnoyarsk. The size of individual fires is indicated at each fire location.
Fig.2. Fires burning on 8 May 2000 around Blagoveskcensk (Amur Oblast) and in the China-Russia border area (west of the Blagoveskcensk Region).
Fig.3. Fires burning on 8 May 2000 east of Chita (Chita Oblast) in southern Russia and in northern Mongolia north of Batshireet .
For more details on fire in the Russian Federation, Mongolia and China: See IFFN Country Notes.
Scientific details on fire in the Russian Federation are provided by the Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN) report.
Bibliography on fire in ecosystems of boreal Eurasia:
One of the results of the first international fire science conference in the Russian Federation (1993) was the publication of a monograph on fire in boreal Eurasia, including some selected contributions on boreal North America. The literature cited in the monograph contains numerous publications which in many cases are not easily accessible. To facilitate literature search the bibliographical sources are provided by topic (chapter).
