Publications

Click on the following links for publications published by the Fire project.

2024 |2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

2024

• Khairoun A. Mouillot F., Chen W., Ciais P., Chuvieco E. (2024) Coarse-resolution burned area datasets severely underestimate fire-related forest loss. Science of the Total Environment 920, 170599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170599.

2023

• Haliuc, A., Daniau, AL., Mouillot, F., Chen, W., Leys, B., David, V., Hanquiez, V., Dennielou, B., Schefuss, E., Bayon, G., Crosta, X. (2023) Microscopic charcoals in ocean sediments off Africa track past fire intensity from the continent. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 133. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00800-x
• Meryeme Boumahdi, Angel Mario García-Pedrero, Mario Lillo-Saavedra y Consuelo Gonzalo-Martin. Assimilating Sentinel-3 Spectral Bands with Sentinel-2 to Improve the Quality of Spatio-temporally Fused Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing 17, p. 584-600. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3333275.
• Pinardi M., Stroppiana D., Caroni R., Parigi L., Tellina G., Free G., Giardino C., Albergel C., Bresciani M. (2023) Assessing the impact of wildfires on water quality using satellite remote sensing: The lake baikal case study. Front. Remote Sens 4:1107275, https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2023.1107275
• Zheng, B., Ciais, P., Chevallier, F., Yang, H., Canadell, J.G., Chen, Y., van der Velde, I.R., Aben, I., Chuvieco, E., Davis, S.J., Deeter, M., Hong, C., Kong, Y., Li, H., Li, H., Lin, X., He, K., Zhang, Q. (2023) Record-high CO2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021. Science 379 (6635), 912-917. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade0805

2022

• Chuvieco, E., Roteta, E., Sali, M., Stroppiana, D., Boettcher, M., Kirches, G., Storm, T., Khairoun, A., Pettinari, M.L., Franquesa, M., Albergel, C. (2022) Building a small fire database for Sub-Saharan Africa from Sentinel-2 high-resolution images. Science of the Total Environment 845, 157139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157139
• Franquesa, M., Lizundia-Loiola, J., Stehman, S.V., Chuvieco, E. (2022). Using long temporal reference units to assess the spatial accuracy of global satellite-derived burned area products. Remote Sensing of Environment 269, 112823, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112823
• Franquesa, M., Rodriguez-Montellano, A.M., Chuvieco, E., Aguado, I. (2022) Reference Data Accuracy Impacts Burned Area Product Validation: The Role of the Expert Analyst. Remote Sensing 14(17), 4354; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14174354
• Franquesa, M., Stehman S.V., Chuvieco, E. Assessment and characterization of sources of error impacting the accuracy of global burned area products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 280, 113214, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113214
• García, M.; Pettinari, M.L.; Chuvieco, E.; Salas, J.; Mouillot, F.; Chen, W.; Aguado, I. (2022) Characterizing Global Fire Regimes from Satellite-Derived Products. Forests, 13, 699. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13050699
• Hegglin M. I., Bastos A., Bovensmann H., Buchwitz M., Fawcett D., Ghent D., Kulk G., Sathyendranath S., Shepherd T. G., Quegan S., Röthlisberger R., Briggs S., Buontempo C., Cazenave A., Chuvieco E., Ciais P., Crisp D., Engelen R., Fadnavis S., Herold M., Horwath M., Jonsson O., Kpaka G., Merchant C. J., Mielke C., Nagler T., Paul F., Popp T., Quaife T., Rayner N. A., Robert C., Schröder M., Sitch S., Venturini S., van der Schalie R., van der Vliet M., Wigneron J.-P., Woolway R. I. (2022) Space-based Earth observation in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10:941490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.941490
• Lizundia-Loiola, J., Franquesa, M., Khairoun, A., Chuvieco, E. (2022) Global burned area mapping from Sentinel-3 Synergy and VIIRS active fires. Remote Sensing of Environment 282, 113298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113298
• Majdalani, G., Koutsias, N., Faour, G., Adjizian-Gerard, J., Mouillot, F. (2022) Fire Regime Analysis in Lebanon (2001–2020): Combining Remote Sensing Data in a Scarcely Documented Area. Fire 5(5), 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5050141
• Stroppiana, D., Sali, M., Busetto, L., Boschetti, M., Ranghetti, L., Franquesa, M., Pettinari, M.L., Chuvieco, E. (2022). Sentinel-2 sampling design and reference fire perimeters to assess accuracy of Burned Area products over Africa for the year 2019. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 191, 223-234, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.07.015
• van Wees, D., van der Werf, G.R., Randerson, J.T., Rogers, B.M. Chen, Y., Veraverbeke, S., Giglio, L., Morton, D.C. (2022) Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500 m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED). Geoscientific Model Development 15(22):8411-8437. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8411-2022.

2021

• Belenguer-Plomer, M.A., Tanase, M.A., Chuvieco, E., Bovolo, F. (2021) CNN-based burned area mapping using radar and optical data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 260, 112468, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112468.
• Chuvieco, E., Pettinari, M.L., Koutsias, N., Forkel, M., Hatson, S., Turco, M. (2021) Human and climate drivers of global biomass burning variability. Science of the Total Environment 779, 146361, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146361
• Genet, M., Daniau, A-L., Mouillot, F., Hanquiez, V., Schmidt, S., David, V., Georget, M., Abrantes, F. (2021) Modern relationships between microscopic charcoal in marine sediments and fire regimes on adjacent landmasses to refine the interpretation of marine paleofire records: An Iberian case study. Quaternary Science Reviews 270, 107148, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107148
• Hao, W. M., Reeves, M. C., Baggett, L. S., Balkanski, Y., Ciais, P., Nordgren, B. L., Petkov, A., Corley, R. E., Mouillot, F., Urbanski, S. P., and Yue, C. (2021) Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia: 2002–2016. Biogeosciences 18, 2559–2572, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2559-2021
• Lizundia-Loiola, J., Franquesa, M., Boettcher, M., Kirches, G., Pettinari, M.L., Chuvieco, E. (2021) Implementation of the Burned Area Component of the Copernicus Climate Change Service: From MODIS to OLCI Data. Remote Sensing 13 (21), 4295, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214295
• Moreno, M.V., Laurent, P., Mouillot, F. (2021) Global intercomparison of functional pyrodiversity from two satellite sensors. International Journal of Remote Sensing 42 (24), 9523-9541, https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2021.1999529
• Otón, G., Franquesa, M., Lizundia-Loiola, J., & Chuvieco, E. (2021). Validation of low spatial resolution and no-dichotomy global long-term burned area product by Pareto boundary. In: Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XII, 1186313, 293-299: SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599883
• Otón, G., Lizundia-Loiola, J., Pettinari, M.L., Chuvieco, E. (2021) Development of a consistent global long-term burned area product (1982–2018) based on AVHRR-LTDR data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 103, 102473, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102473
• Otón, G., Pereira, J.M.C., Silva, J.M.N., Chuvieco, E. (2021) Analysis of trends in the FireCCI global long term burned area product (1982-2018). Fire 4(4), 74, https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4040074
• Ramo, R., Roteta, E., Bistinas, I., Wees, D., Bastarrika, A., Chuvieco, E. & van de Werf, G. (2021) African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data. PNAS 118 (9) e2011160118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011160118
• Roteta, E., Bastarrika, A., Franquesa, M., Chuvieco E. (2021) Landsat and Sentinel-2 based burned area mapping tools in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing 13 (4), 816, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040816.
• Zheng, B., Ciais, P., Chevallier, F., Chuvieco, E., Chen, Y, Yang, H. (2021) Increasing forest fire emissions despite the decline in global burned area. Sciences Advances 7 (39): eabh2646, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abh2646

2020

• Bowman, D., Williamson, G., Yebra, M., Lizundia-Loiola, J., Pettinari, M.L., Shah, S., Bradstock, R., Chuvieco, E. (2020) Wildfires: Australia needs a national monitoring agency. Nature 584, 188-191, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02306-4
• Chuvieco, E., Aguado, I., Salas, J., García, M., Yebra, M., & Oliva, P. (2020) Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management. Current Forestry Reports 6, 81–96, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-020-00116-5
• Franquesa, M., Vanderhoof, M.K., Stavrakoudis, D., Gitas, I.Z., Roteta, E., Padilla, M., Chuvieco, E. (2020) Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products. Earth System Science Data 12, 3229-3246, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3229-2020
• Lizundia-Loiola, J., Otón, G., Ramo, R., Chuvieco, E. (2020) A spatio-temporal active-fire clustering approach for global burned area mapping at 250 m from MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment 236, 111493, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111493
• Lizundia-Loiola, J., Pettinari, M. L., Chuvieco, E. (2020) Temporal Anomalies in Burned Area Trends: Satellite Estimations of the Amazonian 2019 Fire Crisis. Remote Sensing 12 (1), 151, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12010151.
• Moreno, M.V., Laurent, P., Ciais, P., Moillot, F. (2020) Assessing satellite-derived fire patches with functional diversity trait methods. Remote Sensing of Environment 247, 111897, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111897
• Popp, T., Hegglin, M.I., Hollmann, R., Ardhuin, F., Bartsch, A., Bastos, A., Bennett, V., Boutin, J., Brockmann, C., Buchwitz, M., Chuvieco, E., Ciais, P., Dorigo, W., Ghent, D., Jones, R., Lavergne, T., Merchant, C.J., Meyssignac, B., Paul, F., Quegan, S., Sathyendranath, S., Scanlon, T., Schröder, M., Simis, S.G.H., & Willén, U. (2020) Consistency of satellite climate data records for Earth system monitoring. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0127.1
• Tanase, M.A., Belengher-Plomer, M.A., Roteta, E., Bastarrika, A., Wheeler, J. Fernández-Carrillo, A., Tansey, K., Wiedermann, W., Navratil, P., Lohberger, S., Siegert, F., Chuvierco, E. (2020) Burned Area Detection and Mapping: Intercomparison of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Based Algorithms over Tropical Africa. Remote Sensing 12 (2), 334, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12020334.

2019

• Belenguer-Plomer, M.A., Chuvieco, E., Tanase, M.A. (2019) Temporal Decorrelation of C-Band Backscatter Coefficient in Mediterranean Burned Areas. Remote Sensing 11 (22), 2661, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11222661
• Belenguer-Plomer, M.A., Tanase, M.A., Fernandez-Carrillo, A., Chuvieco, E. (2019) Burned area detection and mapping using Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficient and thermal anomalies. Remote Sensing of Environment 233, 111345, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111345
• Brennan, J., Gómez-Dans, J.L., Disney, M., and Lewis, P. (2019) Theoretical uncertainties for global satellite-derived burned area estimates. Biogeosciences 16, 3147–3164, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3147-2019
• Campagnolo, M.L., Oom, D., Padilla, M., Pereira, J.M.C. (2019) A patch-based algorithm for global and daily burned area mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment 232, 111288, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111288
• Chuvieco, E., Mouillot, F., van der Werf, G.R., San Miguel, J., Tanase, M., Koutsias, N., García, M., Yebra, M., Padilla, M., Gitas, I., Heil, A., Hawbaker, T.J., Giglio, L. (2019) Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 225, 45-64, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.013
• Forkel, M., Andela, N., Harrison, S.P., Lasslop, G., van Marle, M., Chuvieco, E., Dorigo, W., Forrest, M., Hantson, S., Heil, A., Li, F., Melton, J., Sitch, S., Yue, C., Arneth, A. (2019) Emergent relationships on burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models. Biogeosciences 16, 57-76, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-57-2019
• Forkel, M., Dorigo, W.A., Lasslop, G., Chuvieco, E., Hantson, S., Heil, A., Teubner, I., Thonicke, K., Harrison, S.P. (2019) Recent global and regional trends in burned area and their compensating environmental controls. Environmental Research Communications 1, 051005, https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab25d2
• Laurent, P., Mouillot, F., Moreno, M.V., Yue, C., and Ciais, P. (2019) Varying relationships between fire intensity and fire size at global scale. Biogeosciences 16, 275-288, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-275-2019
• Otón, G., Ramo, R., Lizundia-Loiola, J., Chuvieco, E. (2019) Global detection of long-term (1982-2017) burned area with AVHRR-LTDR data. Remote Sensing 11 (18), 2079, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11182079
• Roteta, E., Bastarrika, A., Padilla, M., Storm, T., Chuvieco, E. (2019) Development of a Sentinel-2 burned area algorithm: Generation of a small fire database for sub-Saharan Africa. Remote Sensing of Environment 222, 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.011
• Turco, M., Herrera, S., Tourigny, E., Chuvieco, E., Provenzale, A.(2019) A comparison of remotely-sensed and inventory datasets for burned area in Mediterranean Europe. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 82, 101887, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2019.05.020

2018

• Chuvieco, E., Lizundia-Loiola, J., Pettinari, M.L., Ramo, R., Padilla, M., Tansey, K., Mouillot, F., Laurent, P., Storm, T., Heil, A., Plummer, S. (2018) Generation and analysis of a new global burned area product based on MODIS 250 m reflectance bands and thermal anomalies. Earth System Science Data 10, 2015-2031, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2015-2018
• Laurent, P., Mouillot, F., Yue, C., Ciais, P., Moreno, V., Nogueira, J. M.P. (2018) FRY, a global database of fire patch functional traits derived from space-borne burned area products. Scientific Data 5, 180132, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.132
• Lohberger, S., Stängel, M., Atwood, E.C., Siegert, F. (2018) Spatial evaluation of Indonesia's 2015 fire-affected area and estimated carbon emissions using Sentinel-1. Global Change Biology 24 (2), 644-654, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13841
• Ramo, R., García, M., Rodríguez, D., Chuvieco, E. (2018) A data mining approach for global burned area mapping. Int. Journal of Applied Earth Observation Geoinformation 73, 39-51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.05.027

2017

• Andela, N., Morton, D.C., Giglio, L., Chen, Y., van der Werf, G.R., Kasibhatla, P.S., Defries, R.S., Collatz, G.J., Hantson, S., Kloster, S., Bachelet, D., Forrest, M., Lasslop, G., Li, F., Mangeon,S., Melton, J.R., Yue, C., Randerson, J.T. (2017) A human-driven decline in global burned area. Science 356(6345), 1356-1362, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4108
• Forkel, M., Dorigo, W., Lasslop, G., Teubner, I., Chuvieco, E., Thonicke, K. (2017) A data-driven approach to identify controls on global fire activity from satellite and climate observations (SOFIA V1). Geoscientific Model Development 10, 4443-4476, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4443-2017https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4443-2017
• Nogueira, J.M.P., Rambal, S., Barbosa, J.P.R.A.D., Mouillot, F. (2017) Spatial Pattern of the Seasonal Drought/Burned Area Relationship across Brazilian Biomes: Sensitivity to Drought Metrics and Global Remote-Sensing Fire Products. Climate 5(2), 42, https://doi.org/10.3390/cli5020042
• Padilla, M., Olofsson, P., Stehman, S.V., Tansey, K., Chuvieco, E. (2017) Stratification and sample allocation for reference burned area data. Remote Sensing of Environment 203, 240-255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.041
• Ramo, R., Chuvieco, E. (2017) Developing a Random Forest Algorithm for MODIS Global Burned Area Classification. Remote Sensing 9(11), 1193, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111193

2016

• Alonso-Canas, I., Chuvieco, E. (2016) Desarrollo de un algoritmo global de área quemada para imágenes del sensor ENVISAT-MERIS. GeoFocus. Revista Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Información Geográfica 17, 3-25, http://www.geofocus.org/index.php/geofocus/article/view/423
• Chuvieco, E., Yue, C., Heil, A., Mouillot, F., Alonso-Canas, I., Padilla, M., Pereira, J.M.C., Oom, D., Tansey, K. (2016) A new global burned area product for climate assessment of fire impacts. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (5), 619-629, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12440
• Nogueira, J.M.P., Ruffault, J., Chuvieco, E., Mouillot, F. (2016) Can We Go Beyond Burned Area in the Assessment of Global Remote Sensing Products with Fire Patch Metrics? Remote Sensing 9(1), 7
• Yue, C., Ciais, P., Zhu, D., Wang, T., Peng, S.S., Piao, S.L. (2016) How have past fire disturbances contributed to the current carbon balance of boreal ecosystems? Biogeosciences 13, 675-690, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-675-2016

2015

• Alonso-Canas, I., Chuvieco, E. (2015) Global Burned Area Mapping from ENVISAT-MERIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment 163, 140-152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.011
• Padilla, M., Stehman, S.V., Hantson, S., Oliva, P., Alonso-Canas, I., Bradley, A., Tansey, K., Mota, B., Pereira, J.M., Chuvieco, E. (2015) Comparing the Accuracies of Remote Sensing Global Burned Area Products using Stratified Random Sampling and Estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment 160, 114-121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.005
• Yue, C., Ciais, P., Cadule, P., Thonicke, K., van Leeuwen, T.T (2015) Modelling the role of fires in the terrestrial carbon balance by incorporating SPITFIRE into the global vegetation model ORCHIDEE – Part 2: Carbon emissions and the role of fires in the global carbon balance. Geoscientific Model Development 8, 1321-1338, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1321-2015

2014

• Mouillot, F., Schultz, M.G., Yue, C., Cadule, P., Tansey, K., Ciais, P., Chuvieco, E. (2014) Ten years of global burned area products from spaceborne remote sensing—A review: Analysis of user needs and recommendations for future developments. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 26, 64-79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2013.05.014
• Padilla, M., Stehman, S.V., Litago, J., Chuvieco, E. (2014) Assessing the Temporal Stability of the Accuracy of a Time Series of Burned Area Products. Remote Sensing 6 (3), 2050-2068, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6032050
• Padilla, M., Stehman, S.V., Chuvieco, E. (2014) Validation of the 2008 MODIS-MCD45 global burned area product using stratified random sampling. Remote Sensing of Environment 144, 187-196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.008
• Yue, C., Ciais, P., Cadule, P., Thonicke, K., Archibald, S., Poulter, B., Hao, W. M., Hantson, S., Mouillot, F., Friedlingstein, P., Maignan, F., and Viovy, N. (2014) Modelling the role of fires in the terrestrial carbon balance by incorporating SPITFIRE into the global vegetation model ORCHIDEE – Part 1: Simulating historical global burned area and fire regime. Geoscientific Model Development 7, 2747-2767, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2747-2014

2013

• Hantson, S., Padilla, M., Corti, D., Chuvieco, E. (2013) Strengths and weaknesses of MODIS hotspots to characterize global fire occurrence. Remote Sensing of Environment 131, 152-159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.12.004
• Yue, C., Ciais, P., Luyssaert, S., Cadule, P., Harden, J., Randerson, J., Bellassen, V., Wang, T., Piao, S. L., Poulter, B., and Viovy, N. (2013) Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model. Biogeosciences 10, 8233-8252, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-8233-2013