Fire-Fighting Capability of Forests in Water Protection Zone of Lake Baikal (Case Study of Baikal-Lena Nature Reserve)
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620050118
Abstract
The methodology of comparative assessment the fire-fighting capability of different forest types based on processing of thermal infrared imaging Landsat TM data and surface temperatures of forest landscapes with different bioproduction characteristics received on that basis is reviewed. This methodology has been applied to modal geosystems of Baikal-Lena Nature Reserve located in water protection zone of Lake Baikal. The opportunity to use surface temperatures for the assessment of fire-fighting role of different forest types is based on the equation of heat balance (R) of the Earth surface as the sum of heat of evaporation (i.e. a stream of latent heat) and turbulent flow from underlying surface. Thermal values were received by interpretation thermal infrared images and reflect the degree of the emission of obvious heat by a landscape. The more obvious heat flow emissions, the less latent heat flow in form of transpiration and physical evaporation from vegetation canopy and more near surface temperatures values. The values of surface temperatures and NDVI and NDMI indexes were analyzed and information about registered hot spots due to extremely hot summer periods from years 2011 till 2017 was applied to identify more vulnerable forest types between modal geosystems of Baikal-Lena Nature Reserve. Most fire vulnerable forest landscapes coincide with intermountain depressions valleys, lowlands, bottom of intermountain basins, submontane uplands and smooth hillsides. Those have different degree of waterlogged areas with islands of frozen rocks and low values of phytomass. These nature complexes are more fire-dangerous in periods of long droughts due to lower transpiration potential and less influence on micro- and mesoclimat as compared with forest on unfrozen rocks.
About the Authors
A. A. Medvedkov
Lomonosov Moscow State University; Moscow Region State University
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
M. V. Kotova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Medvedkov A.A., Kotova M.V. Fire-Fighting Capability of Forests in Water Protection Zone of Lake Baikal (Case Study of Baikal-Lena Nature Reserve). Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2020;84(5):764–775. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620050118
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