Journal article
Exploiting three dimensional vegetation structure to map wildland extent
GJ Newnham, AS Siggins, RM Blanchi, DS Culvenor, JE Leonard, JS Mashford
Remote Sensing of Environment | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2012
Abstract
Wildland and wilderness refer to areas of land which have been subject to little or no modification by human activity. These areas are important due to their role as wildlife habitats, the contributions they make to air and water quality and for human recreation. However, the intermingling of wildland and homes also increases the risk to life and property through wildfires. Management of this risk requires current and detailed knowledge of the spatial extent of wildland. What constitutes wildland vegetation is often difficult to define and may be influenced by both the horizontal continuity and vertical structure. We present a method to map wildland vegetation based on a combination of a ver..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was funded through the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. Lidar data were provided by the Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment. The authors greatly appreciated access to the original building loss data provided by Mr. Andrew Ahern and Mr. Mark Chladil for the Otway Ranges and Hobart fires. The authors also thank our internal CSIRO and anonymous external reviewers who provided very useful critique of the original manuscript.