Vegetation Fires and Pollution in Asia

Dr. Krishna Vadrevu is the Deputy Program Manager for the Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program at the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. He is also leading the South/Southeast Research Initiative (www.sari.umd.edu), a regional initiative of the NASA LCLUC program. He has more than 20 years of research experience in satellite remote sensing. Dr. Vadrevu gained his Ph.D. in 2000 while working at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India. He worked with the interdisciplinary team of agricultural scientists at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), the Ohio State University, USA, on remote sensing of agroecosystems and organic farming field experiments (2001-2010). He then focused on various LCLUC projects, including vegetation fires in developing countries at the University of Maryland, College Park (2010-2016). He joined NASA in 2016. Dr. Vadrevu served as PI and Co-I on projects funded by NASA, USDA, and NSF on LCLUC, biomass burning/greenhouse gas emissions, land-atmospheric interactions, agricultural carbon cycling, and ecosystem sustainability. He has more than a hundred publications in peer-reviewed journals and books.

Dr. Christopher Justice is a Professor at the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has 40 years of research experience in remote sensing. His current research is on land cover and land-use change and global agricultural monitoring using remote sensing. He is the Chief Scientist for NASA HARVEST, NASA's Applied Sciences program on agricultural monitoring. He serves as Project Scientist for the NASA LCLUC Program, the Land Discipline Lead for the NASA MODIS, and the Suomi-NPP VIIRS Science Team. In addition, he is the Co-Chair of the international GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM), and Chair of the international Global Observations of Forest and Land Use Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program.

1. Vegetation Fires and Biomass Burning in South/Southeast Asia - An Overview.- Section I:  Mapping , Monitoring and Modeling of Vegetation Fires.- 2. Wildfire monitoring using infrared bands and spatial resolution effects.- 3. Status and Drivers of Forest Fires in Myanmar.- 4. Vegetation Fires and Entropy Variations In Myanmar.- 5. Crop residue burning and forest fire emissions in Nepal.- 6. Firewood Burning Dynamics by the Sri Lankan Households: Trends, Patterns, and Implications.- 7. Burnt Area Signal Variations in Agriculture and Forested Landscapes of India - A Case Study Using Sentinel A/B Synthetic Aperture Radar.- 8. Application of Interferometry SAR for Monitoring of Peatland Areas- Case Studies in Indonesia.- 9. Active Fire Monitoring of Thailand and Upper ASEAN by Earth Observation Data: benefits, lessons learned and what still needs to be known.- 10. Detecting Vegetation Regrowth after Fires in Small Watershed Settings Using Remotely Sensed Data andLocal Community Participation Approach.- 11. Long-Term Spatiotemporal Distribution of Fire over Maritime Continent and their Responses to Climate Anomalies .- 12. Vegetation Fires in Laos - An Overview.- 13. Vegetation Fires, Fire Radiative Power and Intermediate Fire Occurrence Intensity (IFOI) Hypothesis Testing in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.- 14. Analyzing fire behavior and calibrating a fire growth model in a seasonal dry tropical forest area.- Section II:  Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollution.- 15. Spatiotemporally resolved pollutant emissions from biomass burning in Asia.- 16. Twenty-year variations of aerosol optical depth over Asia in relation to anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions.- 17. Light Absorption Properties of Biomass Burning Emissions in Bangladesh: Current State of Knowledge.- 18. Remote Sensing of greenhouse gases and aerosols from agricultural residue burning over Pakistan.- 19. A comparative study of energy, emissions and economic efficiency of various cookstoves in Nepal.- 20. Estimation of Ultrafine Particulate Matter Emissions from Biomass Burning Using Satellite Imaging and Burn Severity.- 21. Characteristics of Transboundary Haze and General Aerosol over Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.- 22. Measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions from fire-prone peatlands in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, using ground-based instruments.- 23. Air Pollution Caused by Deep Peatland Fire in Central Kalimantan.- 24. Chemical Speciation of PM0 Emissions from Peat Burning Emission in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.- 25. GHG emissions estimation from Peatland fires in Indonesia - Review and Importance of Combustion Factor .- 26. Forest Fire Emissions in Equatorial Asia and Their Recent Delay Anomaly in the Dry Season.- Section III:  Air Pollution Modeling and Decision Support Systems.- 27. Impact of vegetation fires on regional aerosol black carbon over South and East Asia.- 28. Detection andModeling of South Asian Biomass Burning Aerosols from both Macro- and Micro-perspective.- 29. Remote sensing of agricultural biomass burning aerosols, gaseous compounds, long-distance transport and impact on air quality.- 30. Agricultural fires in Northeast China: Characteristics, Impacts, and Challenges.- 31. Air Pollution Modelling in Southeast Asia - An Overview.- 32. Trace gases and air quality in Northwestern Vietnam during recurrent biomass burning on the Indochina Peninsula since 0 - Field Observations and Atmospheric Simulations.- 33. Southeast Asian Transboundary Haze in the Southern Philippines, and Meteorological Drivers.- 34. An Operational Fire Danger Rating System for Thailand and Lower Mekong Region: Development, Utilization, and Experiences.- 35. Fires Hotspot Forecasting in Indonesia Using Long Short-Term Memory Algorithm and MODIS Datasets.