BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess psychiatric disorders and their association with burn-related factors in a population of Turkish children with burns. METHODS Thirty-one children admitted to the Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Burn Unit between January 2013 and August 2013 were first assessed by the plastic surgeon, and then those with psychological symptoms were referred to a child ...

Multispectral classification, one of the most commonly used methods for mapping burned areas, is based on the spectral properties of different classes of interest and employs special algorithms designed to perform various types of spectral analysis. However, the use of these classifications has been repeatedly reported to create confusion between burned areas and nonvegetation categories, espec...

The devastating series of fire events that occurred during the summers of 2007 and 2009 in Greece made evident the need for an operational mechanism to map burned areas in an accurate and timely fashion to be developed. In this work, Système pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT)-4 HRVIR images are introduced in an object-based classification environment in order to develop a classification proc...

23 We demonstrate that wildfire area burned (WFAB) in the American West was significantly 24 controlled by climate (combinations of precipitation, temperature, and/or drought) during most 25 of the 20 century (1916-2003). Persistent, ecosystem-specific correlations between climate 26 variables and area burned are grouped by vegetation type for 16 ecoprovinces across the West. 27 Most mountainou...

fire, as a natural ecological disturbance factor in forest, this study located in the marivan region, northern zagros forest, and western iranian state of kurdistan. in each burned and unburned area 30 circle sample plot (1000 m2) were collected by randomized–systematic method in the 100×200 m net (in total 60 plots). in every sample plot the kind of species, number of tree, the height of coppi...

Due to the ability of the NOAA-AVHRR sensor to cover a wide area and its high temporal frequency, it is possible to quickly obtain a general overview of the prevailing situation over a large area of terrain and, more specifically, quickly assess the damage caused by a recent large forest fire by mapping the extent of the burned area. The aim of this work was to map a large forest fire that rece...

Global environmental changes and human activity influence wildland fires worldwide, but the relative importance of the individual factors varies regionally and their interplay can be difficult to disentangle. Here we evaluate projected future changes in burned area at the European and sub-European scale, and we investigate uncertainties in the relative importance of the determining factors. We ...

Zagros forests are one of the important natural ecosystems in Iran with high plant diversity and variety of plant communities. In recent decades, fire events have frequently occurred in some of these ecosystems. The purpose of this research is to investigate the composition and diversity of herbaceous species after nine years of fire occurrence in the forests of Zagros in western Iran. For this...

Inundation and fire can affect the structure of riparian vegetation in wetlands. Our aim was to verify if there are differences in richness, abundance, basal area, composition and topographic preference of woody species in riparian forests related to the fire history, flooding duration, or the interaction between both. The study was conducted in the riparian forests of the Paraguay River some o...