Satellite-based analysis of the spatial patterns of fire- and storm-related forest disturbances in the Ural region, Russia

Large-scale wildfires and windstorms are the most important disturbance agents for the Russian boreal forests. The paper presents an assessment of fire-related and wind-induced forest losses in the Ural region of Russia for 2000‒2014. The assessment is based on the use of Landsat images, Global Forest Change dataset (Hansen et al. in Science 342:850–853, 2013. null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null...