Monitoring of Plant Community Regeneration after Fire by Remote Sensing
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In this paper we present a first approach to evaluate the plant regeneration processes after wildfires. Ten burnt areas were selected and their NDVI variations were monitored throughout the post-fire period. The main objective was to recognise the different regeneration patterns of each burnt area. Several variables (such as the amount of rain, lithology, slope, aspect, etc.) were considered in order to analyse their possible relationship with the recovery process. Some of these variables showed a significant effect over the regeneration time, although further analyses seem still needed.
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