Mapping Natural Phenomena: Boreal Forest Fires with Non-discrete Boundaries

摘要: Abstract Forest fires are spatially and temporally frequent in the boreal forest biome continue to alter spatial mosaic of its cover. Some these occur remote locations where direct socio-economic impacts negligible, therefore not suppressed. However, natural have many ecological consequences, their monitoring mapping pose both an important a challenging task. The current state art for fire-event northern Ontario is conducted at variable cartographic scales generally relies on recording approximate perimeters burned area from fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters with handheld global positioning system receiver. All such techniques treat forest-fire boundaries, regardless detection resolutions irregularity gradient-like characteristics burned/not-burned interface, as crisp lines. Here we describe procedure standardizing fires...