Forest fire risk mapping using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and earth observation datasets: a case study in the mountainous terrain of Northeast India

Lamat, Ridalin; Kumar, M.; Kundu, Arnab; Lal, Deepak

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“…Lamat et al. ( 2021 ) also indicates toward the likelihood of an increase in forest fire activity under rising temperature.…”

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“…Accidental and intentional fires caused by negligently discarded cigarette butts, campfires, debris burning, and acts of arson are also important forest fire ignition agents (Babu et al., 2016 ; Forest Survey of India [FSI], 2019 ; Sevinc et al., 2020 ). Given favorable weather conditions these anthropogenic fires can quickly become uncontrolled and spread to wide areas of the forest, ultimately turning into a large‐scale disaster (Lamat et al., 2021 ). The occurrence, frequency, and intensity of forest fires is also linked to changing weather and climatic conditions such as warmer temperature, precipitation deficits, increased number of dry days, and El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events.…”

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“…The fire season in the Indian subcontinent is spread over the dry months from February till June (FMAMJ), whereas remaining months of the year (JASONDJ) show little to no fire activity and are considered as the non‐fire season (FSI, 2020 ; Kale et al., 2017 ). Forests in India are of diverse types, but much focus remains on either Himalayan forest fires (Babu et al., 2016 ; Banerjee, 2021 ; Chandra, 2005 ; Kumar, Rajeevan, et al., 2013 ; Kumar, Sheikh, et al., 2013 ) or on forest fires caused by the practice of Jhum‐cultivation in north‐east India (Ahmad et al., 2018 ; Lamat et al., 2021 ; Puri et al., 2011 ). However, central India, an extremely fire prone region often goes neglected.…”

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Investigation of Forest Fire Activity Changes Over the Central India Domain Using Satellite Observations During 2001–2020

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Forest fire is an increasingly common phenomenon that affects almost all forest types and biomes on earth, largely causing global to regional changes in the air quality, radiation budget, land-atmosphere interactions, nutrient cycles, and ecological balance (Bowman et al., 2011;Cochrane, 2009;Giglio et al., 2016). Recurrent fires also pose considerable threat to nearby residents who often suffer from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. In cases of massive forest fires, people are forced to evacuate or permanently relocate their homes. High fatalities of residents, firefighters, and fauna, severe air pollution ranging from few to thousands of kilometers, and huge economy losses from property damages, national park closures,

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“…Lamat et al. ( 2021 ) also indicates toward the likelihood of an increase in forest fire activity under rising temperature.…”

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Investigation of Forest Fire Activity Changes Over the Central India Domain Using Satellite Observations During 2001–2020

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“…Demark of the high risk zone mapping of various forests against fire have been done by various authors and considered the factors like land cover types, aspect, slope angle, landscape wetness index, and distance from road, settlement, tourism hubs, anti-poaching camp sheds etc. using soft-wares like Arc GIS, Q-GIS, ERADAS and many software, [21,22,23,24,25]. The global fire counts had surged by 13% between 2019 and 2020.…”

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Pyro Geography and Indian Quest during Anthropocene to COVID-19

Mishra

2021

IJECC

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Taming fire by homosapiens was one of the foremost technological advancement in the history of evolution. The homosapiens tried to tame the wild fire by locating, preserving, using as tools for hunt game, food preparation, rituals and religion, and protecting them from predators. The modern men in Anthropocene in Pyroxene period, the fire have been used for domestic, industrial, and pioneering researches to concur the earth. The type of ignition to our vast deciduous forests can be natural, accidental, out of negligence, deliberate, incendiary, agriculture purposes, resource collection, and at times cultural. Present assessment embraces the changes that occurred in the wildfire due to weather-related and anthropogenic ignited. The wild fire deaths in towns, factories and mines have been reduced for the last six years. But during the pandemic COVID-19 under the locks, shutdowns and curfews, the numbers of crowdie and industrial fires in India has abridged, but dependence on forest products for livelihood by the aboriginal people and global warming had increased numbers of forest fire in India. There are also increased electrocution fatalities in different hospitals in India due to oxygen enriched surroundings during the present Pandemic.

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“…Geospatial technologies have the ability to provide timely and precise spatial and temporal information for complex re zone modeling. Further, integrating advanced multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models offers an innovative and accurate approach towards re risk zones assessment (Lamat et al 2021). Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) models combined with GIS are decisive tools for calculating and forecasting natural and man-made risks (Gigovi'c et al 2016;Gigovi'c et al 2017).…”

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Forest Fire Susceptibility Mapping of West Sikkim District, India using MCDA techniques of AHP & TOPSIS model

Naskar

Rahaman

Biswas

2022

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Forest fire poses major environmental hazard, to the extent of sometimes permanently damaging the forest ecology. The potential of human to repair nature is hampered by the extension of human domination into forests, which results in the loss of forest land. While human expansion cannot be stopped, we must accept responsibility for the consequences and thus work to minimize such environmental hazards emanating from such calamities. RS and GIS have proved to be useful techniques for such studies. The goal of the current study is to identify the most vulnerable forest fire zones in the West Sikkim district falling within the state of Sikkim (India) during 2004–2021. Various thematic layers (LULC and topographical factors) were created using Landsat 8 OLI and ASTER DEM. For the final forest fire susceptibility zone (FFSZ) map, climate variables such as precipitation, temperature, humidity, and wind speed were also used. The authors employed the MCDM techniques of AHP and TOPSIS to determine the areas which are most vulnerable to wildfires in the research area. 194 wildfire locations, as obtained from Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) were used for the classification. The FFSZ were classified as “very high, high, medium, low, and very low vulnerability zones” based on their fire vulnerability. The areas under “Very high Susceptibility Zone” of AHP and TOPSIS were 152.331 km2 and 348.499 km2 respectively whereas the areas under “Very Low Susceptibility Zone” were 115.351 km2 and 139.436 km2 in the results of AHP and TOPSIS respectively. To check the accuracy of the FFSZ susceptibility maps obtained from the two modeling techniques, the same were confirmed by using (Receiver Operating Characteristics) ROC curves. Result indicates that the TOPSIS model (AUC = 82.28%) is slightly better at determining the vulnerable zones than the AHP method (AUC = 72.25%). Use of Geo-spatial technology can be an effective tool for delineating forest fire-prone areas of West Sikkim district. A fire risk map is useful for preventing possible tragedies by allowing and planning of enough fire-fighting infrastructures in areas vulnerable to fire damage.

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Forest fire risk mapping using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and earth observation datasets: a case study in the mountainous terrain of Northeast India

Cited by 29 publications

References 46 publications

Investigation of Forest Fire Activity Changes Over the Central India Domain Using Satellite Observations During 2001–2020

Investigation of Forest Fire Activity Changes Over the Central India Domain Using Satellite Observations During 2001–2020

Pyro Geography and Indian Quest during Anthropocene to COVID-19

Forest Fire Susceptibility Mapping of West Sikkim District, India using MCDA techniques of AHP & TOPSIS model

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Forest fire risk mapping using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and earth observation datasets: a case study in the mountainous terrain of Northeast India

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Investigation of Forest Fire Activity Changes Over the Central India Domain Using Satellite Observations During 2001–2020

Investigation of Forest Fire Activity Changes Over the Central India Domain Using Satellite Observations During 2001–2020

Pyro Geography and Indian Quest during Anthropocene to COVID-19

Forest Fire Susceptibility Mapping of West Sikkim District, India using MCDA techniques of AHP &amp; TOPSIS model

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