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Remote Sensing for Wildfire Management Potential and Impacts



The special collection includes papers addressing various aspects of remote sensing applications in managing wildfire across the globe. It holds the specific challenges and objectives of various aspects of remote sensing applications in effectively monitoring the wildfire management system. It addresses the modest trends and benefits of remote sensing applications in introducing for fire management purposes at forestry.

Edited by:

Dr. Padam Jee Omar
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi), India.

Dr. Ganesh Ji Omar
Research Fellow
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Gupta
University of Waterloo, Canada.

Submission deadline: December 31, 2023  


  1. Wildfires are increasingly impacting ecosystems worldwide especially in temperate dry habitats, often interplaying with other global changes (e.g., alien plant invasions). Understanding the ecological conseque...

    Authors: Giacomo Trotta, Luca Cadez, Francesco Boscutti, Marco Vuerich, Edoardo Asquini, Giacomo Boscarol, Paolo Cingano, Giacomo Azzani, Sara Pischedda, Antonio Tomao and Giorgio Alberti
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:94
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  2. Forests are invaluable resources, and fire is a natural process that is considered an integral part of the forest ecosystem. Although fire offers several ecological benefits, its frequent occurrence in differe...

    Authors: Shubhangi Chaturvedi, Chandravanshi Shubham Arun, Poornima Singh Thakur, Pritee Khanna and Aparajita Ojha
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:83
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  3. Fire significantly transforms ecology and landscapes worldwide, impacting carbon cycling, species interactions, and ecosystem functions. In the Brazilian Cerrado, a fire-dependent savanna, the interaction betw...

    Authors: Vera Laísa da Silva Arruda, Ane Auxiliadora Costa Alencar, Osmar Abílio de Carvalho Júnior, Fernanda de Figueiredo Ribeiro, Filipe Viegas de Arruda, Dhemerson Estevão Conciani, Wallace Vieira da Silva and Julia Zanin Shimbo
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:64
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  4. Vegetation fires have major impacts on the ecosystem and present a significant threat to human life. Vegetation fires consists of forest fires, cropland fires, and other vegetation fires in this study. Current...

    Authors: Fahad Shahzad, Kaleem Mehmood, Khadim Hussain, Ijlal Haidar, Shoaib Ahmad Anees, Sultan Muhammad, Jamshid Ali, Muhammad Adnan, Zhichao Wang and Zhongke Feng
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:57
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  5. Forest fires are a recurring issue in many parts of the world, including India. These fires can have various causes, including human activities (such as agricultural burning, campfires, or discarded cigarettes...

    Authors: Keval H. Jodhani, Haard Patel, Utsav Soni, Rishabh Patel, Bhairavi Valodara, Nitesh Gupta, Anant Patel and Padam jee Omar
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:23
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  6. Wildland fire in arid and semi-arid (dryland) regions can intensify when climatic, biophysical, and land-use factors increase fuel load and continuity. To inform wildland fire management under these conditions...

    Authors: Adam G. Wells, Seth M. Munson, Miguel L. Villarreal, Steven E. Sesnie and Katherine M. Laushman
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2023 19:37
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  8. Forests are an essential natural resource to humankind, providing a myriad of direct and indirect benefits. Natural disasters like forest fires have a major impact on global warming and the continued existence...

    Authors: Veerappampalayam Easwaramoorthy Sathishkumar, Jaehyuk Cho, Malliga Subramanian and Obuli Sai Naren
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2023 19:9
    Content type: Original research Published on: